A BLUE AND WHITE MONTEITH BOWL, modelled after a European silver form with a notched rim, the exterior painted with petal-shaped panels containing various flowering plants below trellis patterns, the geometrical motifs repeated on the interior of the notched rim, the centre with a double line roundel enclosing branches of prunus growing from rockwork (minute rim chips), Kangxi

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A BLUE AND WHITE MONTEITH BOWL, modelled after a European silver form with a notched rim, the exterior painted with petal-shaped panels containing various flowering plants below trellis patterns, the geometrical motifs repeated on the interior of the notched rim, the centre with a double line roundel enclosing branches of prunus growing from rockwork (minute rim chips), Kangxi
32cm. diam.

Lot Essay

For an example of a famille verte 'Monteith' bowl see: Howard and Ayers. 1 op.cit pp. 116-117, where the authors remark: "As we learn from the contemporary Oxford historian Anthony Wood, the Monteith, a bowl with notched rim for chilling wine glasses which could thus be suspended in water, made its appearance in English silver in the year 1683 and was named after a somewhat eccentric Scot, the hem of whose cloak was notched in the same way"

There are other examples of blue and white Monteiths in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Another pair of blue and white Monteiths sold at Christie's, Amsterdam, 15th October 1990, lot 23

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