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Object 201041

Écuelle with cover

Japan

1700-1720

Height 110 mm (4.88 inch), diameter (ex handles) bowl 143 mm (6.77 inch), diameter of footring 60 mm (2.28 inch)

Écuelle with cover on a footring with a low domed cover and a finial in the shape of three upright pointed leaves. The base is a glazed. Applied with two openwork flange handles in the shape of half chrysanthemums. Decorated in underglaze blue with a repeated scene of two ladies on a terrace with garden rocks, a banana, pine and bamboo tree. The cover is similarly decorated. This écuelle with cover used to have a matching stand, this stand is now missing.

This écuelle (with its original, now missing, stand) is based on a form that is common in contemporary European silver or pewter. An identical piece is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. (Howard & Ayers 1978, p.67)

For a similarly shaped and decorated (Chinese) écuelle with cover and stand, please see:

Condition: A tiny firing tension hairline to one of the handles and two missing pieces to the fruit-shaped finial.

References:

Howard & Ayers 1978, vol. 1, cat. 22

Jenyns 1979, cat. 21a. (ii)

Jörg & Van Campen 1997, cat. 303

Price: Sold.