A RARE CHINESE IMARI BORDALUE AND COVER

CIRCA 1725

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A RARE CHINESE IMARI BORDALUE AND COVER
Circa 1725
Of conventional form and painted on each side with a lattice-fenced garden growing peony, prunus and bamboo, the borders of iron-red diaper pattern and a cushion-shaped blue knop on the cover
8¾in. (22.3cm.) long

Lot Essay

Explaining this form D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, p. 229 writes of "Louis Bourdalue (1632-1704),...'one of the greatest orators that France has produced'...But the length of (his) sermons...meant that society ladies carried these vessels to church with them"

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