A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE EWER

Lot 73
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Lot 73 | A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE EWER
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$ 10 000 – 15 000
A SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE EWER
THE PORCELAIN LATE MING DYNASTY, WANLI PERIOD (1573-1620), THE MOUNTS POSSIBLY ENGLISH OR DUTCH, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Of baluster form, the spout painted as a branch with raised roots extending out over the body, the body painted with panels of flowers and bamboo, the neck further painted with birds on flowering branches and with everted six-point flower-form mouth, mounted with a stepped circular foot and plain neck band connected by vertical straps extending down the body and around the spout, apparently unmarked
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high




Provenance

With Crichton Brothers, London, circa 1936.
Acquired from Galerie J. Kugel, Paris, 2002.



Literature

E. Wenham, 'Silver Mounted Porcelain', Connoisseur, vol. 97, no. IX, April 1936, pp. 185-194.
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 55, pp. 232-233.
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