CIRCA 1775

Details

A RARE FAMILLE ROSE EROTIC BARBER'S BOWL
CIRCA 1775
Decorated at the centre with a roundel depicting four naked ladies wrestling on a tiled floor with fluted columns and a panelled door behind them, primarily en grisaille but with their bodies picked out in flesh-tones, within a narrow gilt surround, the fluted well enamelled in the famille rose palette with bamboo swags intertwined with flowers suspended from a gilt spearhead band following the line of the flutes, the border with similar bamboo and flowers below the moulded rim, shallow rim chips and fritting
14 1/8 in. (36 cm.) wide

Provenance

Francisco Vetromile, sold Sotheby's Monaco, 5 March 1989, lot 394

Literature

F. and N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, fig. 5.9, p. 113.

Exhibited

Porcelanas, Compania de las Indias, Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, Buenos Aires, September 1969, catalogue no. 7.

Special notice

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

Further details

END OF SALE

Lot Essay

The shape of this barber's bowl copies a European silver shape. English silver bowls of very similar shape were being made between circa 1750 - 70 and would have been copied by the Chinese potter. The design at the centre of the present lot would have copied an engraving but as yet this has not been identified.

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