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18TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF LARGE CHINESE CELADON-GLAZED DOUBLE-GOURD VASES
18TH CENTURY
Each with globular lower section and pear-shaped upper section, moulded and carved all over with peony blooms amongst scrolling foliage, all under an even pale celadon glaze pooling to a slightly darker tone in the recesses to enhance the design, the interiors and undersides white, one vase repaired
17¾ in. (45 cm.) high (2)
18TH CENTURY
Each with globular lower section and pear-shaped upper section, moulded and carved all over with peony blooms amongst scrolling foliage, all under an even pale celadon glaze pooling to a slightly darker tone in the recesses to enhance the design, the interiors and undersides white, one vase repaired
17¾ in. (45 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Possibly Sarah, 1st Duchess of Marlborough (1660-1744) and thence by descent to her favourite grandson Hon. John Spencer (1708-46), father of John, 1st Earl Spencer (1734-1783).
Thence by descent to John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer (1835-1910) at Althorp, where photographed in the Domenichino Room in 1892 and the Billiard Room in 1909.
Thence by descent to John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer (1835-1910) at Althorp, where photographed in the Domenichino Room in 1892 and the Billiard Room in 1909.
Literature
W.B. Honey, Catalogue of the Porcelain and Pottery both Oriental and European in the Collection of the Earl Spencer at Althorp, 1937, no. 65
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