THE PORCELAIN KANGXI (1662-1722), THE MOUNTS LATE 18TH CENTURY, FRENCH

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A SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED FAMILLE VERTE EWER AND COVER
THE PORCELAIN KANGXI (1662-1722), THE MOUNTS LATE 18TH CENTURY, FRENCH
The ewer of pear shape, brightly and boldly enamelled and gilt around the body with two large long-tailed birds, one perched on a flowering tree peony branch and the other on a peach blossom branch, a third smaller bird in flight above them, the neck with a seeded green band decorated with a prunus branch on either side stopping with a large curling leaf at the small pinched spout, a narrow green floral band with cartouches above the foot, the loop handle with a stylised lotus scroll and the shallow domed cover with a roundel depicting a long-tailed bird on a prunus branch and insects in flight within a seeded green band at the rim, the cover rim mounted in silver-gilt and attached to the handle with a hinged leaf-shaped thumbpiece, small chip on foot rim restored
overall height 8¾ in. (22.3 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Compare related pewter-mounted ewers, one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by Sir Francis Watson in Mounted Oriental Porcelain, Washington D. C, International Exhibitions Foundation, 1986, p. 58, no. 15; and another in the Collection Bal, Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, fig. 103.

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