17TH/18TH CENTURY

细节

Two Unusual Blanc-de-Chine Vessels
17th/18th century
One a cadogan-type ewer molded in the form of the sanduo (peach, pomegranate and finger citron) with a gnarled branch-form handle and spout, the reverse molded as rockwork; the other a waterdropper made in the form of a crab seated within a lotus leaf, with a spout rising from the front of the leaf
8 5/8 and 6in. (21.9 and 15.3cm.) across (2)

来源

Sanduo ewer: Frank Caro, New York.

拍品专文

A similar crab-form waterdropper is illustrated by P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, New York, 1969, pl. 32B (left). On p. 105 the author notes that by 1721 one was already in the collection of Augustus the Strong, and that another, now in the British Museum, was in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane by 1705.