Chine de commande - Western Subjects 1680-1800 - Various Subjects - Couples - Page 1

Object 2012414

Teapot

China

c.1745

Height with cover 135 mm (5.31 inch), height without cover 95 mm (3.74 inch), diameter handle to spout 200 mm (7.87 inch), diameter of mouthrim 62 mm (2.44 inch), diameter of footring 52 mm (2.05 inch), weight including cover 470 grams (16.58 ounce (oz.)), weight cover 89 grams (3.14 ounce (oz.))

Teapot of globular shape on footring. Straight spout with a curved C-shaped handle. Domed pierced cover and pointed knob. Decorated in iron-red, encre de Chine and gold after an unknown source, showing a European couple seated on the trunk of a tree in a garden landscape flanked by a boy appearing from the bushes behind and a running dog. The cover is decorated with a running dog under a tree.

The source of this romantic scene is not known, but it may have been derived from a European engraving / print.

For a similarly decorated saucer, please see:

La porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes a décor Occidental, (F. & N. Hervouët & Y. Bruneau, Flammarion - Pere Castor, Paris 1986), p.93, cat. 4.37.

Condition: A professionally restored tip of the knob and a sealed hairline from one side, through the bottom, to the other side.

Reference:

Hervouët 1986, cat. 4.37

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