A Chantilly Kakiemon gilt-metal mounted spice-box and cover

CIRCA 1740, IRON-RED HUNTING HORN MARK

细节

A Chantilly Kakiemon gilt-metal mounted spice-box and cover
Circa 1740, iron-red hunting horn mark
Of shaped rectangular form, with two waisted oblong octagonal containers painted with flowering plants flanking a central container similarly painted with a duck beneath a shrub within a blue and yellow C-scroll cartouche, surmounted by a circular shell-moulded cover, the top rim with radiating green foliage and pendant flowers beneath a gadrooned rim (restoration to back top rim of one container, slight cracks to both containers and through footrim, damage and restoration to pierced scroll above central container, chip to underside of cover, minute chipping to upper rim and footrim)
6¼ in. (16 cm.) wide

拍品专文

Cf. Geneviève Le Duc, Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly au XVIIIe siècle (Paris 1996), p. 205 for a similar armorial example; see also Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection (London 1994), pp. 38-39, no. 40, for a faux armorial example without its cover.

Of the survivors of this type of boîte à épices, very few still retain their covers. The central compartment would have been used for substances with a pungent taste or smell.