A PAIR OF STRIPED IRON-RED AND GILT VASES

FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Details

A PAIR OF STRIPED IRON-RED AND GILT VASES
FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The pear-shaped bodies decorated with spiraling peach stripes edged in iron-red, the bulb necks carefully painted with four gilt and iron-red chrysanthemum heads below the flaring mouths
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

The Benjamin F. Edwards III Collection.

Literature

Fuchs and Howard, Made in China, front cover and p. 166, no. 106.

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Lot Essay

An example in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is illustrated by C. Le Corbeiller and A.C. Frelinghuysen in Chinese Export Porcelain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003, p. 11, where the authors note that this decoration "imitates the opaque white threads of Venetian latticino glass of the late sixteenth century." It is also interesting to note that an identical pair was in the collection of Augustus the Strong.

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