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A Chinese export porcelain armorial sauce tureen, cover and stand, with the Royal Portuguese coat of arms, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, circa 1775 | 清乾隆約1775年 外銷粉彩繪葡萄牙皇家族徽湯盆及托盤一套
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20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Property of a European Collector
歐洲私人收藏
A Chinese export porcelain armorial sauce tureen, cover and stand, with the Royal Portuguese coat of arms
Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, circa 1775
清乾隆約1775年 外銷粉彩繪葡萄牙皇家族徽湯盆及托盤一套
the oval body rising from a short spreading foot and modelled in the shape of a boat with ribbed sides and high scrolled prow, the low domed cover of conforming shape with high prow handle and surmounted by a gilt acorn finial, the oval stand with quatrefoil recess and broad everted rim moulded with shells and scrolling foliage, finely enamelled to the interior with the Royal Arms of King Pedro III superimposed on the Maltese Cross, all within a spearhead band, the tureen painted to either side with the Royal Arms below a key-fret band at the rim, the cover with a puce honeycomb diaper border
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Width of stand 22.5 cm, 8 7/8 in.
Most likely King Pedro III of Portugal (1717-1786)
來源:
或葡萄牙佩德羅三世（1717-1786）
This sauce tureen, with its flamboyant shape, would have been part of an extensive dinner, tea and chocolate service ordered from China by King Pedro III (1717-1786), known as the Queluz Service after the palace in which it was housed and where most of the surviving pieces of this service still live, including a tureen identical to the present lot.
This service was recorded at the palace in 1775 and described as “A set of China from Macao with a white background adorned with a red net and hues, golden lines; on each piece there are two cartouches with Royal Coat-of-Arms along with those of Malta” (Palácios: Inventário do Património Cultural - Colecção de Cerâmica do Palacio Nacional de Queluz, 2002, pp.66-69).
Pedro III was the fifth son of king João V and younger brother of king José, having married his niece, the future queen D. Maria I, in 1760. He was also Grand Prior of Order of Crato, the Portuguese branch of Order of Malta.
This richly Baroque model, which was used in other services for the European market, has been discussed by Howard and Ayers (China for the West. Chinese Porcelain and other Decorative Arts for Export illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection, 1978, vol. II, p.555).
Besides the identical sauce tureen in the Royal Palace of Queluz, and the present lot, there are two known others examples in private collections (one Collection M.Q.P, Lisbon, formerly collection Com. Alpoim Calvão – discussed in depth with the service in A.Varela Santos, Portugal in Porcelain from China, 500 Years of Trade, pp. 543-551; the second in a Private Collection, Cascais). Michel Beurdeley (Chinese Trade Porcelain, 1962, plate XV, p.74) and Nuno de Castro (Chinese Porcelain and the Heraldry of the Empire, p. 134.) have also published previously this model which was likely the M.Q.P./Calvão example.