Lot 164
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AN IRON-RED AND GILT MONTEITH
AN IRON-RED AND GILT MONTEITH

KANGXI PERIOD

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AN IRON-RED AND GILT MONTEITH
KANGXI PERIOD
Of European silver form with deeply scalloped flaring rim above the footed bowl, decorated on each side with a scene from a romance showing a gentleman calling on a lady
12½ in. (31.7 cm.) wide across handles

Lot Essay

A fashionable English silver form between about 1680 and 1720, sometimes made with a removable rim, as this porcelain version seems to imitate. For a very similar monteith in the Hodroff collection see D.S. Howard, op. cit., no. 217.

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