A MEISSEN WINE-COOLER of bucket shape, the entwined green branch handles with coloured flower terminals, the body painted with The Red Dragon pattern after an Arita original, the sinuous dragons flanked by precious objects, beneath confronting phoenix and a dark-brown rim, a flower sprig disguising an extended firing crack to the foot (some glaze scratching, minute chips to flower terminals and extended fire crack to foot), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1740

细节

A MEISSEN WINE-COOLER of bucket shape, the entwined green branch handles with coloured flower terminals, the body painted with The Red Dragon pattern after an Arita original, the sinuous dragons flanked by precious objects, beneath confronting phoenix and a dark-brown rim, a flower sprig disguising an extended firing crack to the foot (some glaze scratching, minute chips to flower terminals and extended fire crack to foot), blue crossed swords mark, circa 1740
16cm. high

来源

Winston Guest, New York

展览

Orlando Museum of Art, Catalogue no. 46

拍品专文

There is an identical pair of wine-coolers in the Museo Duca di Martina, Naples, inv. nos. 2385-2392