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A FINE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE ‘EUROPEAN SILVER-SHAPED’ Very often new trends were set at Europe’s richest and most socially
TWO-HANDLED WINE COOLERS prominent Palace, the long-running Court of ‘le Roi Soleil’, Louis
Qianlong period, circa 1770 XIV at Versailles. As new types of food began to be created by his
Each enameled in bright colors on both sides of the vertically molded imaginative chefs setting out to impress, so it was necessary to create
lobed body with a large, long single spray of flowering tree peony, appropriate vessels in which to serve them to guests. It is therefore
beneath a wavy relief-molded double band and indented rim, applied normally the case that the Chinese Export porcelain versions of sauce
at both sides with a freestanding loop handle. boats, salt cellars, wine coolers, salad bowls, custard cups, soup
plates, meat and soup plates, and other forms of dining vessels, all
8 1/2in (21.4cm) across (2). first appeared as very grand European ones made in silver or gold.
$4,000 - 6,000 This is certainly true of wine coolers. They appear in a variety of
shapes, but the most handsome are normally the ones molded
乾隆時期 約1770年 粉彩《歐洲銀器型》雙耳冰酒桶一對 in flamboyant rococo shapes clearly imitating French and English
silver shapes. Indeed, some actually bear the coat-of-arms of the
Published: aristocratic patrons who commissioned them as an amusing (but
Cohen & Cohen, Tiptoe through the Tulipieres, Hong Kong, 2008, p. demonstrably still expensive and exotic) contrast to the top families
48, no. 31 who would cram their ‘buffet’ (display shelves for family bullion) with
Cohen & Cohen, Take Two!, Antwerp, 2017, pp. 78-79, no. 33 the finest gold and silver vessels.
出版： But it was not just the shape of these wine coolers which makes them
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Tiptoe through the Tulipieres》，香 historically interesting. Their function too is novel. Traditionally, in many
港，2008年，頁48，圖版編號31 societies, it was the norm to serve wine unchilled; if preferred chilled,
it was the mug or glass that was chilled, not the wine. This tradition
出版： had given rise to the creation of ‘Monteiths’, circular bowls with deep
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Take Two!》，安特衛普，2017年， notches around the rim to accommodate wine glasses suspended
頁78-79，圖版編號33 by the stem with the bowls buried in ice filling the Monteith. (see
lot 137) Wine buckets reversed this less efficient cooling process,
One of the most interesting components in the fascinating history of enabling hosts to chill the wine contained in bottles standing in ice, so
Chinese Export porcelain is the way in which it is possible to track the that there was no need to chill each glass. This clearly proved a very
emergence of new unfamiliar shapes among Export wares created in convenient innovation, and quite a number of Chinese Export wine
China, which reflect fairly quickly social developments of one kind of coolers have survived, attractively enameled with different patterns, to
another in Europe. This handsome pair of wine coolers represent one attest the popularity of this change.
of these evolutions in the West.
References: Mézin 2002, p. 75, no. 58, for a famille rose pair of
Wine began to be served in different ways during the 18th century, the same size and form but with different flowers, in the Musée de
and the change in behavior prompted the creation of new accessories L’Orient; Brawer 1992, p. 145, for a single blue and white example;
for the dining room. Huitfeldt 1993, p. 66, for another famille rose version; and Cohen &
Cohen, 2008, no. 31, for a similar pair.
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