THE PORCELAIN KANGXI (1662-1722), THE SILVER PROBABLY DUTCH EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A RARE SILVER-MOUNTED FAMILLE VERTE MUSTARD POT AND COVER
The porcelain Kangxi (1662-1722), the silver probably Dutch early 18th Century
With bracket handle and shallow domed stemmed base, the pear-shaped body enamelled with two birds flying above daisies issuing from rockwork between tree peony, the shallow domed cover with a notch at the rim to retain a spoon and linked to the handle lugs by a scalloped silver hinge
5½ in. (14 cm.) high

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拍品专文

This form copies Dutch silver mustard pots of the late 17th and early 18th Century. Small silver-mounted beer mugs and covers of similar size and form, although some are spirally fluted, are also found in blue and white and famille verte porcelain of the Kangxi period; however, these may have been taken from Dutch Delft originals of the late 17th Century. The original notch in the rim of the cover on the present example would suggest that it was intended as a mustard pot, and very slender early 18th Century Dutch silver mustard spoons of the necessary length for this pot are indeed known. Compare the silver-mounted blue and white beer mug and cover illustrated by C.J.A. Jörg, Oriental Porcelain, A Choice from the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum Collection, Rotterdam, 1995, pp. 39 and 40, no.14.