CIRCA 1735-40, IRON-RED HUNTING HORN MARKS TO EACH PIECE

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A pair of Chantilly Kakiemon cups and saucers
Circa 1735-40, iron-red hunting horn marks to each piece
The cups of tapering shaped section, the angular turquoise handles with two points, finely painted in iron-red, blue, turquoise, brown and yellow, one side of each cup with two Orientals in a boat with reeds, rushes and lillies nearby, the curved fronts each with pavilions perched on a large outcrop of turquoise pierced rockwork issuing pine trees, flowering shrubs and bamboo, the reverses with lillies, the fan-shaped saucers similarly decorated with birds in flight above, with moulded band rims and moulded stepped undersides (minute scratch to rockwork of one cup) (4)

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Lot Essay

This form of cup and saucer does not appear to be recorded in the literature. For a cup and saucer of peach-shaped section see Geneviève Le Duc, Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly au XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1996), p. 111 and for a Chelsea Kakiemon cup and saucer of similar form see Ayers, Impey, Mallet et. al, 'Porcelain for Palaces, The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750', British Museum Exhibition Catalogue (London, 1990), p. 280, no. 328. In both cases the shape of the saucer echoes that of the cup, but with the present lot the saucers are of a different shape, perhaps because the extraordinary and complex form of the cups would not have translated well to the saucers. See Geneviève Le Duc, ibid, p. 109 for pieces with very similar decoration, almost certainly inspired by the engravings of Jean-Antoine Fraisse published in 1735 under the title Livre de desseins chinois, tirés d'après des originaux de Perse, des Indes, de la Chine et du Japon...

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