Page 285 - Bonhams Catalog Cohen and Cohen Jan 24, 2023 New York

These minimalist yet elegantly decorated vessels follow an original Originally of silver, monteiths were later made in glazed earthenware,
European silver shape, as is readily visible from the sharp angles and porcelain and glass. In France they were called a seau à verre, seau
unlikely projections which no true potter would regard as natural for crenelé, verrière and rafraîchissoir. The name is said to derive from
the ceramic medium. Silver monteiths were generally deep circular or a Scotsman named Monteith who, at Oxford, wore a cloak or coat
oval bowls with concave notches in the rims; a few, as in these rarer scalloped at the bottom in this manner according to Savage and
examples, were created with what appears to be a collar of raised Newman 1985, p. 196.
dividers around the rim, which are European in origin but seem to echo
the cloud-collar motifs often found in Chinese art. References: Castro, 1988, pp. 78-79, for details of this service, and
p. 67, a monteith with the same crenelation but different body shape
bearing the royal arms of Portugal; and compare with, for a single
example of this shape and size with anhua decoration, but without
any armorial bearings and decorated in opaque enamels with flowers
and the ‘100-antiques’ pattern, in the Royal Collection, Buckingham
Palace, London.

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