CIRCA 1750

Details

A GRISAILLE AND GILT EUROPEAN-SUBJECT CREAM-JUG AND A COVER
CIRCA 1750
Decorated on the pear-shaped body with a large roundel depicting two soldiers, one holding a sword and the other a long staff detaining their prisoner who is holding a gilt horn, below a band of grisaille and gilt leafy scrolls around the neck; and a cover, possibly Dutch-decorated
the cream jug 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedah, sold Sotheby's New York, 19 October 2000, lot 221

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Lot Essay

This design has sometimes been called 'The Arrest of Christ', but as Hervouët and Bruneau comment in La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 264, this scene is unlikely to depict Christ, since the figure is holding a horn or trumpet; see ibid. fig. 11.16 for a saucer from this rare service.

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