QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Details

A VERY RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE DUCK SAUCE TUREENS, COVERS AND STANDS
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each cover as a colorfully plumed bird nesting on an oval tureen flanked by shell handles, the tureen sides and stands painted with carp and lotus blooms as if a pond, the stand with a colorful waterfowl
8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) long, the stands

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 7 November 1994, lot 93 (the tureens).
with The Chinese Porcelain Co., New York (the stands).

Literature

William R. Sargent, Chinese Porcelain in the Conde Collection, Madrid, 2014, p.259

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Lot Essay

This charming and unusual form is based on 17th and 18th century European roasting dishes, where the game or domestic bird would sit atop a pastry shell containing the bird meat pie. The only other pair known with their matching stands is in The Peabody Essex Museum; see W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, p. 178.

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