A RARE GILT-PORCELAIN EWER AND COVER

18TH CENTURY

細節

A RARE GILT-PORCELAIN EWER AND COVER
18th century
Perhaps made in imitation of a metal prototype, with curved spout and arched handle rising from the high shoulder, the flat cover surmounted by a tapering handle of gate or arch form, covered in finely polished gilding over a pale café-au-lait underglaze, the rim of the cover glazed white
5¾in. (14.6cm.) high

來源

Martin Hurst Collection, no. 989.
Beurdeley Collection, T.J. Larkin, London, no. 51.

拍品專文

Gilded porcelain vessels are rare and may have been made in imitation of gold or gilt-metal vessels. A gilded porcelain stem cup and cover of Qianlong date is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, no. 336, where two others in Japanese collections are cited. Two other pieces, a 'gold-glazed' cup and a figure of a buffalo in the Percival David Collection, are included, but not illustrated, by M. Medley in the catalogue, Ming and Ch'ing Monochrome, London, 1973, Section 6, nos. 598 and 599.