Sale 8009
London
|
8 December 2011
Price realised
GBP 10,000
Estimate
A PAIR OF CHINESE STYLE PORCELAIN FISHBOWLS ON RED LACQUER STANDS 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY SAMSON Each enamelled in the famille rose palette with panels of cockerels in a peony garden, smaller shaped panels with Chinese emblems, on a black ground of scrolling vine and foliage, the sides with lion-mask handles, the interior decorated with carp swimming amidst water weeds, with everted floral blue-ground rim, on later red-lacquer pierced stands 16 in. (41 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) diameter (2)
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A related Samson fishbowl, which was sold Christie's, New York, 21 January 1998, lot 192 is discussed in F. Slitine, Samson génie de l'imitation, Paris, 2002, p.162.
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