Lot 32
32
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE TUREEN AND COVER
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A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE TUREEN AND COVER

QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1750-1755

Details
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE TUREEN AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD, CIRCA 1750-1755
Modelled after a European faience original, with four sturdy paw feet, down-curving handles in the form of acanthus leaves and the cover in the form of an upturned wavy leaf with the curled stem forming the finial, moulded and painted with leaf-shaped panels enclosing floral sprays
15 ¼ in. (38.8 cm.) wide
Provenance
Purchased from Spink & Son Ltd., London, April 1988
Special Notice
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Lot Essay

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 pl. 40 for a Chinese armorial tureen for the Danish market, both in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See also Geoffrey A. Godden, Oriental Export Market Porcelain, London, 1979, p. 134, fig. 34 for a very similar tureen.

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