A Chantilly melon tureen and cover

CIRCA 1750, RED HUNTING HORN MARK

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A Chantilly melon tureen and cover
Circa 1750, red hunting horn mark
The naturally modelled fruit with green stalk handle with moulded double leaf foliage terminal, the opposite end applied with a red flower, the cover applied with a trailing branch and fruit finial, the body painted in the Kakiemon palette with two qilin playing with a brocade ball and with scattered insects and flowerheads, the cover similarly painted with insects and flowers (minute chip to underside of red flower, minute rim chips to underside rim of cover, three small pieces lacking to three leaves of finial)
10 in. (25.5 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Cf. Simon Spero, The Bowles Collection of 18th-Century English and French Porcelain (San Francisco, 1995), p. 165, no. 171 (Acc. no. 1986.34a-b) for the companion example in the California Palace of The Legion of Honor, formerly in the Gilbert Levy Collection and exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Masterpieces of European Porcelain, (catalogue, 1949), no. 119.

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