Lot 77
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A MATCHED PAIR OF GILT-WHITE METAL MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE EWERS
A MATCHED PAIR OF GILT-WHITE METAL MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE EWERS
A MATCHED PAIR OF GILT-WHITE METAL MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE EWERS
A MATCHED PAIR OF GILT-WHITE METAL MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE EWERS
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A MATCHED PAIR OF GILT-WHITE METAL MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE EWERS

THE PORCELAIN TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1650, THE MOUNTS NORTH EUROPEAN, POSSIBLY GERMANY OR NETHERLANDS, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A MATCHED PAIR OF GILT-WHITE METAL MOUNTED CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE EWERS
THE PORCELAIN TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1650, THE MOUNTS NORTH EUROPEAN, POSSIBLY GERMANY OR NETHERLANDS, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Each baluster-form body painted with bands of lappets and strapwork, the hammered gilt-metal domed covers possibly silvered copper, the spouts as animal heads, one with a scroll thumbpiece and the other with a pierced thumbpiece
10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) high
Provenance
Collection Fresco, Paris.
Acquired from Galerie J. Kugel, Paris, 2002.
Literature
T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012, cat. no. 60, pp. 242-243.

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Lot Essay

For a very similar mounted porcelain ewer, see that depicted in a still-life painting by Willem Claesz. Heda (ca. 1593⁄1594 - ca. 1680⁄1682). The painting is dated 1638, and is today preserved in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (inv. no. HK-5504).

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