Lot 207
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AN FINE AND RARE FAMILLE ROSE EXPORT FLASK MODELLED AS A DUTCHMAN, the seated figure wearing a black hat, a frill collar and short tunic with large buttons over a pair of short trousers and black shoes, his two hands supporting his ample stomach as he smiles broadly and stares ahead, to the reverse a loop handle, the domed base enamelled with flower-sprays and pierced with an aperture for a spigot, the hat pierced with a replacement brass cover (tiny chips), 1760-1780

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AN FINE AND RARE FAMILLE ROSE EXPORT FLASK MODELLED AS A DUTCHMAN, the seated figure wearing a black hat, a frill collar and short tunic with large buttons over a pair of short trousers and black shoes, his two hands supporting his ample stomach as he smiles broadly and stares ahead, to the reverse a loop handle, the domed base enamelled with flower-sprays and pierced with an aperture for a spigot, the hat pierced with a replacement brass cover (tiny chips), 1760-1780
35 cm. high

Lot Essay

This rare Chinese figure is copied from faience pitchers produced in Delft, Rouen and Brussels during the middle of the 18th Century.
Cf. Howard and Ayers, China for the West, vol. II, p. 620 for a similar example and a Delft original. The authors note that these were probably spirit jugs.
Similar examples are illustrated by J. M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, p. 189, cat. 172; and M. Jordain and R. Soame Jenyns, Chinese Export Art in the Eighteenth Century, p. 110, no. 73

A similar example sold in our London Rooms, 3rd May 1976, lot 154

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