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A RARE PAIR OF GILT AND GRISAILLE EUROPEAN-SHAPED Like the blue-enameled vases (lot 39 in this sale) these are clearly
PISTOL-HANDLED URNS AND COVERS based on classical urns forms that were popularized during the Italian
Late Qianlong/Jiaqing period, circa 1795-1810 renaissance and later disseminated around Europe. The Wedgwood
Modeled in purely European Neo-classical style and relief molded on factory in England used this model and they were also to be found
both sides with a vertical oval gilt cartouche with a grisaille harbor in Marieberg and Rorstrand in Sweden and later in France, being
scene above a gilt swag of laurel hanging from two upright handles particularly popular at Sevres. The Chinese versions of this design can
simulating the grips on eighteenth century pistols, all standing on a be found in a wide variety of forms, with differing handles and covers,
square pedestal base, the shallowly domed gilt-rimmed cover with a most have swags decoration and stand on square form bases usually
bud finial. painted to imitate porphyry or marble.
16 1/2in (42cm) high (2).
References: Grandjean, 1965, cat. 143, fig. 128, a single urn;
$6,000 - 8,000 Mottahedeh Collection, illustrated by Howard & Ayers, 1978, pp. 556-
557, two urns; Howard 1994, no. 291, p. 245, a pair; Beurdeley 1962,
乾隆晚期/嘉慶時期 約1795-1810年 墨彩描金開光歐式槍把耳蓋墰一 p. 67, an urn of this shape with the ‘urn mysterieuse’ pattern; Cohen
對 & Cohen, 2000, no. 28, p. 38, a pair with the monogram of Gustav L.
Sifwertson.
Published:
Cohen & Cohen, A Game of Bowls, Ghent, 2014, p. 60, no. 47

出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《A Game of Bowls》，根特，2014
年，頁60，圖版編號47

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