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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE FAMILLE ROSE FLARING WINE This appears to be one of the very few examples of this extraordinary
COOLER FOR THE ITALIAN MARKET form, explicitly modeled and created for the European market,
Qianlong period, circa 1740 recorded in Chinese export porcelain. It is particularly remarkable
Modeled in the shape of an Italian (Vezzi) porcelain vessel, itself that the source of this splendid vessel appears to be Italian porcelain,
copying a European rococo silver shape, the thistle-head-shaped wine because Italy was the only major West European nation not to have its
cooler with compressed globular body beneath a tall wide flaring rim own monopolist East India Company to trade directly with Asia. This
standing on a short spreading foot, the exterior boldly enameled overall specifically Italian design must therefore have been commissioned
in bright opaque pink, yellow, coral-red and subsidiary colors with presumably by a senior Italian figure (possibly a director of the Vezzi
elaborate baroque strapwork and arabesques, the sides set with two factory?) through an order placed with one of the foreign East India
human-mask handles resembling earlier Italian silver casts. Companies.
8 1/2in (21cm) high
This wine cooler belongs to a small group of comparable elaborately
$20,000 - 30,000 shaped and decorated pieces with the same mask handles, probably
modeled after silver originals. The decoration was inspired by porcelain
乾隆時期 約1740年 珍稀為意大利市場製粉彩奢口人面雙耳冰酒桶 made at the Vezzi factory in Venice, Italy, active only between 1720-
1727. The strapwork motif may be influenced by the designs of Jean
Provenance: Bérain the Younger (1678-1726). An identical example can be found in
Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Published: Related examples: see for example a tureen, cover and stand in the
Cohen & Cohen, School’s Out, Ghent, 2001, p. 15, no. 10 Medeiros e Almeida Foundation, Lisbon, illustrated by Beurdeley,
Cohen & Cohen, The Elephant in the Room, Antwerp, 2019, pp. 28- 1962, pl. 83; Castro, 1988, p. 87, for three related services made for
29, no. 11 the Portuguese market with the arms of the Bishop of Oporto, D. Jose
Ribeiro da Fonseca Figueredo e Sousa; Le Corbeiller, 1973, where the
來源： author discusses this rare group of Export pieces; Cohen & Cohen,
Leo 與 Doris Hodroff伉儷舊藏 2001, no. 9, p. 14, a pair of tazze with similar decoration; and Cohen &
Cohen, 2019, no. 12, pp. 30-31, for an ewer and cover.
出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《School’s Out》，(city?)，2001年，頁
15，圖版編號10
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《The Elephant in the Room》，安特衛
普，2019年，頁28-29，圖版編號11

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