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Details

A famille rose watch-holder and cover
Qianlong
With oval quatrefoil sides, finely modelled with a ribbed base, applied with flowers in relief surrounding the rounded recess at the front, the back decorated with a flower-spray surrounded by insects, the domed cover with flowering peony and flowers in relief, chips
16.5 cm. high

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Lot Essay

Watch-holders of this form probably derive from Meissen originals of circa 1750, which were used mainly in Germany and Scandinavia. Compare the watch-holder and cover, formerly in the Pierre Blazy Collection, Paris, illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, cat.89; another by D.Howard and J.Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol.II, no.586, pp.565 and 567.

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