CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, CIRCA 1765

The shape of this tureen is probably based on a silver original and was then copied in faience at several European factories including Strasbourg, Höchst, and Nuremburg. The Chinese export examples probably used Höchst tureens as their inspiration, and in particular models by Ignaz Hess at Höchst which were made between 1747 and 1751; see J. G. Phillips, China-Trade Porcelain, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1956, fig. 41, p. 116 for a Höchst tureen and ibid. plate 40, p. 116 for a Chinese armorial tureen for the Danish market, both in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Another armorial tureen of this form for the Danish market is illustrated by Bredo L. Grandjean, Dansk Ostindisk Porcelaen, Copenhagen, 1965, fig. 88, cat. 72; and a further example, made for the Danish Royal families of von Holstein and Ahlefeldt, was sold in these Rooms, 18 May 1995, lot 278.