Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
Auction Closed
October 24, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A CHINESE YIXING GILT-METAL-MOUNTED 'LOTUS LEAF' TEAPOT AND COVER QING DYNASTY, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
清十八世紀初 宜興紫砂鑲金屬荷葉壺
the ovoid body modelled as a series of overlapping lotus leaves with a single lotus bud on one side of the short spout with the loop handle modelled as a branch, the cover with a soon-to-bloom lotus blossom knop secured with a later mounted gilt-metal chain to the tip similarly mounted tip of the spout.
Length: 6¾ in.
17.2 cm
Vanderven & Vanderven, 's-Hertogenbosch, June 1999
Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 350, p. 678, illus.
A teapot of this form appears in the foreground of a French school painting circa 1725-30, in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, inv. 29896, showing a lacquer set of shelves containing Asian ceramics surrounded by parrots and monkeys, illustrated in Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50, New York, 2008, p. 679, fig. 350.1.