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AN UNUSUAL CHINESE BISCUIT `GOOSE' EWER AND COVER
Lot 47

AN UNUSUAL CHINESE BISCUIT `GOOSE' EWER AND COVER

PROBABLY LATE QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Closed11 September 2019

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AN UNUSUAL CHINESE BISCUIT 'GOOSE' EWER AND COVER
PROBABLY LATE QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Modelled as a goose perched over a rocky mound, the handle formed as a lotus stalk and the small cover as a leaf
7 ¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a pair of white-glazed ewers of identical form and size, see John Ayers, Chinese Porcelain in the Marie Vergottis Collection, Paris, 2004, pp. 136 and 139, nos. 146 and 147, where they are dated to the Qianlong period, circa 1750-1775.