A RARE CHINESE EXPORT "TRUMPETER" BOWL

CIRCA 1740

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A RARE CHINESE EXPORT "TRUMPETER" BOWL
CIRCA 1740
Finely enameled front and back with two Moors, one playing a trumpet suspending a yellow standard and the other blowing a French horn, reserved on a deep black ground within variant gilt bands, the interior with a gilt spearhead band and a floral sprig
4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

This design on the present lot is probably by the Dutch draughtsman Cornelis Pronk (1691-1754), although his drawing for the pattern has not been discovered. Pieces from this service have slight variations in the gilt spearheads and border decoration, which would indicate more than one order. A bowl, similar to the present lot, was in the Mottahedeh Collection, illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. I, p. 305, no. 299. For "Trumpeter" tea pieces from the collection of Mary Viscountess Rothermere see Christie's, New York, 16 April 1994, lots 30-32.

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