A RARE CHINESE IMARI EUROPEAN-STYLE CISTERN AND COVER

18TH CENTURY

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A RARE CHINESE IMARI EUROPEAN-STYLE CISTERN AND COVER
18th century
The shape imitating a Western wall fountain, decorated to the sides and cover with shaped panels of flowering branches within multiple ornamental borders, each side with qilin-handles suspending rings, the base with a faux-bois apron and with animal-head handles at either side, the cover restored and cracks to base restuck
19 in. (48 cm.) high overall

拍品專文

Compare this highly unusual Chinese Imari cistern with a blue and white example, with slight gold enrichments, and with landscape panels to the sides, illustrated by Geoffrey A. Godden, Oriental Export Porcelain and its Influences on European Wares, London, 1979, p.133, fig.33. A blue and white cistern was sold in these Rooms, 23 October, 1978, lot 242, and illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, 1984 , p.282, fig.8; and another was sold in these Rooms, 16 November, 1998, lot 450.