CHINESE EXPORT FAMILLE ROSE 'EUROPAN SUBJECT' COFFEE-POT AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG TO EARLY QIANLONG PERIOD
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 16 May 2025 from 09:00 BST
Description
清雍正至乾隆早期 外銷粉彩西洋人物紋帶蓋咖啡杯
of cylindrical form, the spout moulded as a bird's head, the handle as a scrolling tail, the body enamelled on each side within cartouche with a European figure, a floral band with blue ground above and a similar lappet-band at the conical cover, surrounding the double-knop finial
Dimensions
16.4cm wide
Provenance
Private Scottish Collection, Edinburgh
蘇格蘭私人收藏，愛丁堡
Footnote
Closely comparable coffee pot, dated to the Yongzheng period, is illustrated in Maria Antonia Pinto de Matos, 2011, The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Volumn Two, London: Jorge Welsh Books, pt. 308. Another coffee pot with the same shape, but with a spout ending in an ostrich head and handle as ostrich tail, dated to ca. 1760, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession number C.40-1951. Another comparable Chinese export porcelain rose-verte ‘European subject’ coffee pot and cover, Yongzheng/ early Qianlong period, ca. 1735, sold at Christie's New York,19 Jan 2024, lot 540.