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FOUR BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL RETICULATED TRIPOD Such openwork as seen here is commonly called linglong or guigong
SALTS (devils’ work), a type of work recorded by Father d’Entrecolle in his
Kangxi period, circa 1720 letters to superiors in the 1720s. He said, “The appearance of these
Painted in rich underglaze cobalt blue with two roosters in the shallow pieces is singular; one does not at first understand that they have
well of each with prunus branches hanging from a rockface above and a solidity proportioned to their size.” The work can be found on all
cockscomb rising between them, the rim with a diaper cell ground with manner of pieces including plates, baskets, and boxes, as well as
prunus flowerheads, each raised on three masked feet, the tapering cups and pouring vessels with double walls. Salts were a critical
waisted bodies with honey-comb pattern openwork. accoutrement for the well-set table. The 1548 inventory of the estate
2 1/2in (6cm) high; 3 1/4in (8.5cm) across (4). of Margarida Pegada of Elvas in Portugal mentions “a porcelain salt
cellar from India valued at one hundred réys,” with the first record of
$2,500 - 4,000 porcelain open salts from China for the Dutch in 1608, when they
asked Chinese suppliers for “1000 salt-cellars, if they can make them.”
康熙時期 約1720年 青花玲瓏六方三足鹽碟四件 (Pinto de Matos, 2011, Vol. II, 71)

Published: References: A single example in the Princessehof Museum,
Cohen & Cohen, Hit & Myth, Antwerp, 2014-B, p. 7, no. 3a Leeuwarden, in Scheurleer, 1974, no. 176.
出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Hit & Myth》，安特衛普，2014
年-B，頁7，圖版編號3a

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