Lot 37
37
A RARE PAIR OF MONKEY WINE POTS AND COVERS
ANOTHER PROPERTY
A RARE PAIR OF MONKEY WINE POTS AND COVERS

KANGXI PERIOD

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A RARE PAIR OF MONKEY WINE POTS AND COVERS
KANGXI PERIOD
The animals seated with legs crossed at the ankles, holding in their paws a peach which forms the spout, their removable heads the covers and their tails curving high up to the shoulders to serve as handle, affixed to later ormolu bases
7 7/8 in. (20 cm.) high (4)

Lot Essay

A very similar monkey pot in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, is illustrated by W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, p. 81, where the author notes that a pot probably of this form is listed in the inventory of Augustus the Strong, and also illustrates a page from the 1769 Gaignat sale catalogue listing a pair of splashed purple monkey wine pots, with Gabriel de St.-Aubin's sketch charming sketch of one of them in the margin.

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