Important Americana: Silver, Chinese Export, and Prints
Important Americana: Silver, Chinese Export, and Prints
An Instinctive Eye: Property from A Distinguished Collector
A Chinese Export 'Tobacco Leaf' Pattern Chamfered Rectangular Tureen, Cover and Stand, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, circa 1785 | 清乾隆 約1785年 粉彩花卉紋湯盆及托盤
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January 22, 06:53 PM GMT
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5,000 - 7,000 USD
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An Instinctive Eye: Property from A Distinguished Collector
A Chinese Export 'Tobacco Leaf' Pattern Chamfered Rectangular Tureen, Cover and Stand
Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, circa 1785
清乾隆 約1785年 粉彩花卉紋湯盆及托盤
each piece painted with large turquoise, yellow and blue tobacco leaves surrounding a small yellow and puce flower, the tureen molded with orange mythical beast head form handles on each side, the cover surmounted with a pomegranate-form knop
length of tureen 13 1/2 in.; 34.4 cm
Philip Suval, New York
Compare a closely related tureen, cover and stand, illustrated in Michel Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, cat. no. 77.