A Chinese blue and white silver-mounted double-bodied cruet bottle

KANGXI (1662-1722), THE CONTEMPORANEOUS SILVER MOUNTS APPARENTLY UNMARKED

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A Chinese blue and white silver-mounted double-bodied cruet bottle
Kangxi (1662-1722), the contemporaneous silver mounts apparently unmarked
With two necks curved to the right and to the left rising from a pear-shaped body painted with flowering and fruiting branches, the foot and spouts mounted in silver, the silver of one spout inscribed MARESQUIN, the other inscribed CURACAO
20 cm. high

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Lot Essay

This bottle is based on a Western glass original. Such double-bodied glass bottles for oil and vinegar are not uncommon in the seventeenth Century. See Howard and Ayers, China for the West, 1979, p.59, pl. 14; and Jörg & Van Campen, Chinese Ceramics in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, London, 1997, nr. 293, p. 257.

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