AN ENGLISH SILVER-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN CELADON-GLAZED TANKARD

Lot 197
07.07.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 197 | AN ENGLISH SILVER-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN CELADON-GLAZED TANKARD
Estimate value
£ 7 000 – 10 000
AN ENGLISH SILVER-MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN CELADON-GLAZED TANKARD

THE SILVER-MOUNTS, APPARENTLY UNMARKED, CIRCA 1635; THE PORCELAIN, CHINA, 17TH CENTURY

The pale blue porcelain barrel shaped biscuit jar with prunus branches in leaf-shaped cartouches and stiff leaves around the rim, the plain silver-mounted cover with white porcelain recumbent lion, the beaded silver scroll handle with entwined ball thumbpiece

8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) high





Provenance

With Daniel Packer, London 2010.



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