Description
each in the Japanese taste, the moulded yellow ground painted with flowers and with four painted relief panels of birds in a landscape, elaborate pierced and cast mounts to the rim and base, each bears maker's marks in underglaze blue under the mounts, E.C./ 11938 (2)
Dimensions
35cm high, 41cm diameter
Footnote
Note: Eugène Collinot was interested in both Middle and Far Eastern design and architecture, and with Adalbert de Beaumont he published, as one of a series, Ornements du Japon (1883), a handbook for students containing Japanese motifs similar to those on these fine cachepots. He was singled out in the British and French reports on the 1867 Paris Exhibition, the French reporter commenting that 'for the reproduction of Oriental faience M. Collinot is second to none'.