Lot 23
23
A CHINESE IMARI HELMET-SHAPED EWER modelled after a Dutch silver original, supported on a shallow domed foot decorated with flower-sprays, the body with a broad band of chrysanthemum, lotus, peony and hibiscus above a band of moulded petals reserved in the biscuit and beneath a classical mask at the oval spout, the scroll handle perched like a dragon on the rim (chipped and fritted), early 18th Century

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A CHINESE IMARI HELMET-SHAPED EWER modelled after a Dutch silver original, supported on a shallow domed foot decorated with flower-sprays, the body with a broad band of chrysanthemum, lotus, peony and hibiscus above a band of moulded petals reserved in the biscuit and beneath a classical mask at the oval spout, the scroll handle perched like a dragon on the rim (chipped and fritted), early 18th Century
26.5cm. high

Lot Essay

It is rare to find a ewer of this form in Chinese Imari; they are more commonly decorated in famille verte enamels. Cf. D. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., p. 117, pl. 93. For a Japanese Arita ewer of similar shape in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, cf. the exhibition Catalogue, Porcelain for Palaces, O.C.S., 1990, pl. 243

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