THE PORCELAIN PROBABLY SAMSON, 19TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS WITH MAKER'S MARK FOR LIONEL ALFRED CRICHTON, LONDON, 1913

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A SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED VASE
The porcelain probably Samson, 19th century, the mounts with maker's mark for Lionel Alfred Crichton, London, 1913
The flattened pear-shaped vase formed from a ewer with spout and handle removed, decorated in the famille rose palette with a black-ground flaming ogival panel on each side enclosing a boy seated amongst lotus, reserved on a ground decorated in the rose-Imari palette with floral sprays, below slender moulded petal lappets on the neck interupted by a garlic knop, the silver-gilt mounts adorning the foot rim and the neck rim, with a domed cover attached by chains to the human masks at either side of the body
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high overall

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Lot Essay

A Chinese early 18th Century ewer of this design is in the Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, cat. 26, p. 155, where the author says "Made for Persia at the beginning of the Ch'ien Lung period and copied by Europeam potters during the nineteenth century"; another ewer is in the Collection Bal, Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, and is illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, fig. 94.

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