CIRCA 1725-35

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A RARE ROSE-VERTE FLUTED SUGAR-CASTOR AND COVER
CIRCA 1725-35
The pear-shaped body with loop handle, enamelled on each side with a ruyi-shaped panel of flowers and fruit in the rose palette, reserved on a ground of scattered green, iron-red and gilt flower sprays, the similarly decorated pierced domed cover with two small flanges in the interior for locking into the corresponding areas in the neck interior of the body
5 in. (12.8 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

See D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, for two examples of sugar castors, although of different form to the present lot: one, fig. 116, is in the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, and the other, fig. 118, which has a similar locking device for the cover, is in the Flehite Museum, Amersfoort. Although sugar castors in silver were popular around this time, there does not appear to be a known silver castor of this form which would have provided a prototype for the Chinese potter.

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