Lot 439
439
A FAMILLE ROSE RETICULATED HEXAGONAL LANTERN
This lot is exempt from Sales Tax. Property from the Saint Louis Art Museum, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund*
A FAMILLE ROSE RETICULATED HEXAGONAL LANTERN

18TH CENTURY

Details
A FAMILLE ROSE RETICULATED HEXAGONAL LANTERN
18TH CENTURY
With bowed, faceted sides, each decorated with a medallion painted with various figures, reserved on a panel of pierced diaper design, within borders decorated with blossoms
10¾ in. (27.2 cm.) high, gilt wood stand
Provenance
Morgan Collection, no. F. 3.
Garland Collection, no. 747.
Literature
S.W. Bushell and W.M. Laffan, Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, New York, 1911, p. 13, pl. XLIV (middle).
Special notice
This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.

Lot Essay

A lantern of this type decorated with figural reserved panels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is illustrated by W.E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. II, New York, 1949, p. 603.

Compare, also, a similar pair sold in these rooms, 21 September 2000, lot 409.

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