CHINESE EXPORT FAMILLE ROSE FRUIT BOWL STAND
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
Estimate: £600 - £800
Auction: 16 May 2025 from 09:00 BST
Description
清乾隆 外銷粉彩邁森風格塑邱比特環樹果籃支架
modeled as a gnarled tree trunk applied with budding flowers, two putti enveloped the top of the tree in a blue swathe of ribbon draping over
Dimensions
30cm high
Provenance
Private collection, London; previously in the collection of Dr Wou Kiuan (1910-1997), Wou Lien-Pai Museum, collection no. Q.7.17, subsequently sold at Sotheby's London, 15 May 2024, lot 98.
倫敦私人收藏；前吳權博士（1910-1997）收藏；吳蓮伯博物院，編號 Q.7.17；2024年5月15日售於倫敦蘇富比，拍品98。
Footnote
This stand was meant to hold a Meissen-inspired pierced oval bowl to contain lemons. It was originally placed at the centre of a meal, such as cruet sets, spice boxes, salts, mustard pots and sugar castors, as illustrated in Bredo L. Grandjean, Dansk Ostindisk Porcelæn, Copenhagen, 1965, fig. 56, cat. no. 40. Another example is illustrated in David Howard and John Ayers, China for the West, vol. II, London, 1978, p. 566, along with a Meissen example.
Comparable examples, with bowls attached, also with faux-bois enamels, one in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, accession no. 2004.261.23a,b; one further with armorial on the tree trunk, is in the Winterthur Museum, museum no. 1959.2934 A, B; one for the Spanish market, sold at Christie's London, 9 Nov 2010, lot 355; and the other sold at Sotheby's New York, 26 January 2020, lot 1928.