CIRCA 1765

細節

A RARE GRISAILLE-DECORATED 'ANATOMY' SAUCER
CIRCA 1765
Decorated at the centre with a cross-section of the human torso showing the various organs within a leaf and berry surround at the rim, section missing
4¾ in. (22 cm.) diam.

來源

Geoffrey A. Godden.
Purchased from A. Santos.

出版

Geofrey A. Godden, Oriental Export Market Porcelain, London, 1979, fig. 136, p. 222.
F. and N. Hervouët and Y. Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, fig. 16.49, p. 379.

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

拍品專文

This saucer forms part of a coffee-service, on which several designs depicting aspects of human anatomy were drawn; the designs were taken from various medical books, most of which were published in Holland. On one saucer there is a reference to a work by Eleum Pira and this inscription includes the date 1761. Hervouët and Bruneau, op.cit. p. 378 have identified that the design for this saucer is taken from part of Plate XIII in Tabulae Anatomicae by Johan Adam Kulmus, published in 1731 in Amsterdam. For a further discussion on this service, see Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. I, pp. 346 and 347; see ibid. no. 346 for a spoon-tray with this design, and fig. 346a for various examples from the service, which were originally in the Mottahedeh collection and are now in the Winterthur Museum, Delaware.