A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASES, AND A PAIR OF EWERS AND TWO COVERS

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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASES, AND A PAIR OF EWERS AND TWO COVERS
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The tall cylindrical neck of each vase applied with two tightly scrolling handles with leaf-shaped flanges running down the outside edge and painted with leafy sprays, the compressed globular body painted with two dense horizontal flower sprays and the flaring top section with birds perched on leafy flowering branches, half of one handle restored; and the ewers modelled after a Middle Eastern metal prototype, each painted on both sides of the globular body with spade-shaped panels enclosing scrolling leaf motifs and divided by similar cartouches reserved on a dense cracked-ice pattern ground, chips
8in. (20.5cm.) and 7¾in. (19.5cm.) high (4)

Lot Essay

The shape of the vases is after a Venetian glass original, and was copied extensively by European glass factories in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Compare with the pair of vases of this form in the Hodroff Collection, illustrated by D. S. Howard, op.cit., no.277, pp.234 and 235, where the author suggests that a wooden sample may have originally been sent to China for the Dutch market; also the slightly taller single vase in the Princessehof Musem, Leeuwarden, illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, op.cit., fig.107

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