Lot 42
42
A RARE CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL GUGLET AND BASIN

Details
A RARE CHINESE IMARI ARMORIAL GUGLET AND BASIN
CIRCA 1712

Each piece painted with the arms of Walker within a roundel on a fluted ground enamelled with blossoming boughs of lily and peony, all repeated on the bowl's exterior, the borders of leafy scrollwork interrupted by the Walker rising sun crest (bowl broken in several pieces and repaired)--9 5/8in. (24.5cm.) high and 10 3/8in. (26.3cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

A water bottle or guglet from this service is illustrated by Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, p. 177, where he explains that it could have been ordered by either William Walker, Doctor of Laws and Judge Advocate, or John Walker, D.D., Dean and Rector of Bocking in Essex and a chaplain to George II. Another Walker guglet was sold at Christie's London, November 4, 1991, lot 32.