A CHINESE IMARI JAR AND COVER

CIRCA 1720

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A CHINESE IMARI JAR AND COVER
Circa 1720
Of inverted pear shape with flattened cover and short pedestal foot, boldly painted with floral swags suspended from tasselled scrollwork and above crossed cornucopiae and interlaced strapwork
16¼in. (41.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

This shape associated with Baroque taste in the Catholic countries, and this pattern very reminiscent of those on the famous services ordered by Dom Luis Peregrino de Ataide, 10th Count of Atouguia and Viceroy of Brazil 1749-55, especially the two in Chinese Imari. See N. de Castro, Chinese Porcelain and the Heraldry of the Empire, pp. 53-61

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