A Chinese export blue and white cruet set
A Chinese export blue and white cruet set

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A Chinese export blue and white cruet set
of compressed oval form, with moulded mask ring handles, two large and two smaller circular apertures, painted overall with shrews amongst fruiting vines -- 10in. (25.5cms) wide, Qianlong, (feet chipped off and with related chips to sides of base).
See Colour Plate 8.

For a similarly shaped model see sale of 'Chinese Export Ceramics', King Street, 16th November 1999, Lot 317.

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