CIRCA 1775

細節

A FAMILLE ROSE 'TOBACCO-LEAF' OVAL SOUP-TUREEN, COVER AND STAND
Circa 1775
Modelled with foliate rims, upright lotus bud handles and fruit spray finial, decorated with two pheasants perched amongst large underglaze blue and pale yellow enamel broad overlapping leaves, embellished with a large passion-flower and smaller flower sprays, finial extremities and stand restored
the stand 15 in. (38 cm.) wide

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拍品專文

For a similar but smaller tureen of this form, without stand, from the Mottahedeh Collection, see Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol.II, pp.542 and 543, no.557, where the authors mention that this may be one of the earliest forms of tobacco-leaf tureens.