CIRCA 1735

Although this exact design does not appear to be recorded, it is very closely related to the cylindrical and pear-shaped coffee- and tea-pots, often considered to have been made for the Portuguese market, due to their similarity to the 'clarinettist-pattern' wares, of which much exists in Portugal. Compare the more usual design for coffee-pots of this shape, on which the European figures are enclosed in oval panels, and the spout is in the form of a bird reminiscent of an ostrich; an example of this type is in the Hodroff Collection, illustrated by D. S. Howard, op.cit., 1994, front cover and no.169, p.155; another from the Martin-Hurst Collection is illustrated by G. C. Williamson, op.cit., 1970, pl.XXIV, centre top; and a pair were sold in these Rooms, 17 November 1986, lot 408. A further related example, with the figures unenclosed, was exhibited, Porzellan aus China und Japan, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel, 1990, Catalogue, no.350, p.575; and another, of pear shape, is illustrated by F. et N. Hervout and Y. Bruneau, op.cit., 1986, no.7.21, p.149.