A famille verte helmet-shaped ewer

KANGXI

细节

A famille verte helmet-shaped ewer
Kangxi
Finely enamelled to the exterior with a pair of phoenix in flight among smaller birds and peony, between two raised keyfret-pattern bands, separated by a moulded row of pointed leaves, and at the spout a moulded bearded man's mask on a green dotted ground enriched with coiling qilins, the stepped base encircled by whorl- and chrysanthemum-pattern bands, all between moulded green and aubergine dentil borders following the shape of the circular foot and shaped rim, applied to one side with a bracket handle (rim frittings)
28.5 cm. high

拍品专文

This shape is after a European silver original, although similar ewers with lizard handles can be found in late 17th and early 18th Century European metalwork, usually accompagnied by a water-basin. Compare with a very similar ewer illustrated by D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, vol.1, p. 117, no. 93; and in the Rijksmuseum, see J.A.G. Jrg & J. van Campen, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1987, p. 268, no. 318.