A Saint-Cloud Porcelain Blue and White Teapot and Cover, circa 1720-25
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October 22, 02:00 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Bid
2,800 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Saint-Cloud Porcelain Blue and White Teapot and Cover, circa 1720-25
globular form, affixed with an animal form spout and a double scroll handle with a bird head-form thumbrest, the shoulder painted in blue with a band of lambrequin strapwork, the lower border with two bands of fluting molded in low-relief, with similar molding on the cover, with blue diaper bands at the rims
height 5 1/2 in.
14 cm
Anonymous sale, Artcurial, Paris, 21 December, 2020, lot 23;
Where acquired by the present collector.
Another teapot of this distinctive shape, painted with blue-and-white strapwork and with different fluted ornament, formerly in the Bandinel Collection, is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (acc. no. 997&A-1853). A second example, decorated in a Kakiemon palette with a variant of the Two Quail pattern, is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (obj. no. 2015.503a, b).
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