A SAMSON INDIAN-MARKET EWER AND COVER

CIRCA 1875

Details

A SAMSON INDIAN-MARKET EWER AND COVER
CIRCA 1875
With knopped neck, the bulbous body decorated front and back with a 'flaming' tear-drop shaped panel of Buddha sitting on and amongst lotus, flanked by floral sprays, the lower body with fluted lotus-petal panels, the hinged cover with knop finial
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

The Mildred F. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 1985, lot 283

Literature

D. Howard and J. Ayers, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 461-462, pl. 470 (dated as 1725-30)

Lot Essay

For a very similar ewer described as 'made for Persia at the begining of the Ch'ien Lung period and copied by European potters during the nineteenth century' see M. Beurdeley, Chinese Trade Porcelain, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, 1969, p. 155, cat. 26.

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