拍品 81
81
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A LARGE MASON'S IRONSTONE 'NEAPOLITAN' EWER, CIRCA 1825, of cartouche shape richly molded and gilt with rocaille scrolls, with scroll handle and fluted neck, two putti sitting on the shoulder below the spout and handle, finely painted with a farmer and milkmaid in a landscape, the back with flowers (gilding worn, legs of putti restuck, one arm missing, chip to underside of spout, knop joining body to socle restored and chipped)--26¾ in. high

细节
A LARGE MASON'S IRONSTONE 'NEAPOLITAN' EWER, CIRCA 1825, of cartouche shape richly molded and gilt with rocaille scrolls, with scroll handle and fluted neck, two putti sitting on the shoulder below the spout and handle, finely painted with a farmer and milkmaid in a landscape, the back with flowers (gilding worn, legs of putti restuck, one arm missing, chip to underside of spout, knop joining body to socle restored and chipped)--26¾ in. high

拍品专文

The present ewer or vase may be an example of the 'Neapolitan ewer' referred to in the catalogue for the auction which took place upon the dissolution of the partnership between George and Charles Mason in 1826 as rivaling "..the best Work of Dresden manufactory;.." It may have been painted by Samuel Bourne, a painter known for his landscapes. He is one of the few painters referred to by name in the factory's archives, although he did not sign his work. See Geoffrey A. Godden, Godden's Guide to Mason's China and the Ironstone Wares, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1980, colour plate 7, plate 250, p. 192 for another example.