Lot 118
118
A FAMILLE ROSE BOUGH-POT in the form of a European bombé commode with moulded decoration in imitation of legs and drawers, the short sides each with a shaped panel portraying a lady holding a shoe, the shaped front with two long and two short drawers, all enriched with enamelled small flower sprays and the top applied with further flower-heads and pierced with five circular apertures, the flat back with a butterfly hovering above a bouquet of flowers (extremity chips, small area regilded), Qianlong

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A FAMILLE ROSE BOUGH-POT in the form of a European bombé commode with moulded decoration in imitation of legs and drawers, the short sides each with a shaped panel portraying a lady holding a shoe, the shaped front with two long and two short drawers, all enriched with enamelled small flower sprays and the top applied with further flower-heads and pierced with five circular apertures, the flat back with a butterfly hovering above a bouquet of flowers (extremity chips, small area regilded), Qianlong
22cm. wide

Lot Essay

Cf. a similar pair in the Peabody Museum of Salem, illustrated by W.R. Sargent, op. cit., no.110, p.226; another, illustrated by Beurdeley, op. cit., cat.107, p.173, where the author suggests that the form was inspired by a Montpellier or Moustiers faience original. An almost identical pair of bough-pots was sold in these Rooms on 2 March 1976, lot 323; and another very similar pair sold in New York, 20 and 21 October 1989, lot 386

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