Lot 109
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A VERY RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'TOBACCO-LEAF' WINE COOLERS applied with two underglaze-blue and gilt branch handles and relief-moulded around the base with serrated fluted overlapping leaves above the spreading short foot, enamelled on each side with a pair of pheasants and a pair of squirrels amongst fruiting and flowering branches above broad serrated overlapping leaves enriched with further flowers and fruit, all below the foliate rims (rims fritted, one base with star crack), Qianlong

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A VERY RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'TOBACCO-LEAF' WINE COOLERS applied with two underglaze-blue and gilt branch handles and relief-moulded around the base with serrated fluted overlapping leaves above the spreading short foot, enamelled on each side with a pair of pheasants and a pair of squirrels amongst fruiting and flowering branches above broad serrated overlapping leaves enriched with further flowers and fruit, all below the foliate rims (rims fritted, one base with star crack), Qianlong
26.5cm. and 27.5cm. wide (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. J.G. Phillips, op. cit., fig.51, where he illustrates the Marieberg ceramic prototype for this silver-shaped porcelain model, and a Chinese equivalent which is very close to the present lot in shape. The Swedish jardiniére was made between 1758-1766, at the factory near Stockholm. It is one of a number of Marieberg faience shapes which reappear closely imitated in Chinese export porcelain, clearly intended initially for the Swedish market; J.G. Phillips, ibid., p.157

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