LATE 18TH CENTURY

Details

A small 'tobacco leaf' tureen and cover
late 18th century
Shaped as a pomegranate, enamelled with peony, camellia and small summer flowers amongst broad serrated overlapping leaves, the handles modelled to one side as a stem and a twig to the opposite end, the decoration repeated to the cover and moulded to the top with three pomegranates around a twig finial, damages
16.5 cm. wide

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Lot Essay

The 'tobacco-leaf' pattern, with its distinctive broad leaves as a principal theme was possibly derived from European or Indian textile designs. Variations in this design include occasional figures or birds among the leaves. For a discussion on this theme, see D.S. Howard & J. Ayers, China for the West, vol. II, p. 542, fig. 557a.

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