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Lot Essay
For a discussion on the print source for jars with this design, see Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. I, pp. 79 and 80, where the authors explain that the designs in the panels are taken from costume prints engraved in Paris between 1685-1700. They appear to belong to three different sets: two are after a set of prints of 'The Three Graces' by Robert and Nicolas Bonnart, another from a set of 'The Five Senses' by Henri Bonnart, and the fourth resembles a print by H. Bonnart entitled 'L'Air' from a set of 'The Elements'. Three of the prints are illustrated ibid., p. 80, and a smaller jar with this design, together with cover, from the Mottahedeh Collection is illustrated on p. 79, and again in the Hodroff Collection, by David S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, p. 235, no. 278.
A jar of similar size to the present lot, with cover, is in the De Sypesteyn Museum, Loosdrecht, illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, fig. 127. Another, over-decorated in reddish-brown enamel, is in the Swedish Royal Collection, and illustrated by J. Wirgin, Fran Kina till Europa, Stockholm, 1998, pp. 114 and 115, no. 121. A yet larger jar and cover, forming part of a three-piece garniture, was exhibited, La maladie de porcelaine...., East Asian Porcelain from the Collection of Augustus the Strong, Leipzig, 2001, pp. 48 and 49, no. 17. A single beaker vase with this design, no doubt once forming part of a garniture, is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, illustrated by R. L. Hobson, Chinese Porcelain & Wedgwood Pottery, London, 1928, plate 19, no. 144 and p. 38.
A jar of similar size to the present lot, with cover, is in the De Sypesteyn Museum, Loosdrecht, illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain - Chine de Commande, London, 1974, fig. 127. Another, over-decorated in reddish-brown enamel, is in the Swedish Royal Collection, and illustrated by J. Wirgin, Fran Kina till Europa, Stockholm, 1998, pp. 114 and 115, no. 121. A yet larger jar and cover, forming part of a three-piece garniture, was exhibited, La maladie de porcelaine...., East Asian Porcelain from the Collection of Augustus the Strong, Leipzig, 2001, pp. 48 and 49, no. 17. A single beaker vase with this design, no doubt once forming part of a garniture, is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, illustrated by R. L. Hobson, Chinese Porcelain & Wedgwood Pottery, London, 1928, plate 19, no. 144 and p. 38.