A Chinese blue and white silver-mounted double-bodied cruet bottle
Lot 47

A Chinese blue and white silver-mounted double-bodied cruet bottle

KANGXI (1662-1722), THE CONTEMPORANEOUS SILVER MOUNTS APPARENTLY UNMARKED

Fermé23 March 2011

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EUR 3,500

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A Chinese blue and white silver-mounted double-bodied cruet bottle
Kangxi (1662-1722), the contemporaneous silver mounts apparently unmarked
With two necks curved to the right and to the left rising from a pear-shaped body painted with flowering and fruiting branches, the foot and spouts mounted in silver, the silver of one spout inscribed MARESQUIN, the other inscribed CURACAO
20 cm. high

Note du spécialiste

This bottle is based on a Western glass original. Such double-bodied glass bottles for oil and vinegar are not uncommon in the seventeenth Century. See Howard and Ayers, China for the West, 1979, p.59, pl. 14; and Jörg & Van Campen, Chinese Ceramics in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, London, 1997, nr. 293, p. 257.