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A FAMILLE ROSE SHOE-SHAPED SNUFF
BOX
18TH CENTURY
The piece is modelled as a European shoe with
a front buckle, raised heel and upturned toe.
The body is decorated and gilt with scattered
fower-sprays on a green-enamelled ground, the
heel and sole are enamelled iron-red and brown
respectively. The rim mounted with a later hinged
gilt-metal mounted cover decorated with a further
fower spray.
3æ in. (9.5 cm.) long
£2,000-3,000 $2,700-3,900
€2,300-3,300
Compare two shoes with a metal-hinged cover
decorated with famille rose fowers on a white-
glazed ground, one catalogued as a bonbonnière
in Michel Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India
Company, p. 177, cat. no. 108, and the other from
the Copeland Collection in William R Sargeant,
The Copeland Collection: Chinese and Japanese
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Ceramic Figures, Peabody Museum of Salem,
1991, pp.160-161, no. 74. In the latter volume,
Sargeant discusses the European versions which
inspired the production of these Chinese-made
export pieces, for example an almost identical
soft-paste counterpart dated to around 1750 from
the Mennecy factory in France, as well as further
similar shoes produced in the Chantilly and
Doccia factories.
清十八世紀 粉彩鞋形鼻煙盒

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A FAMILLE NOIR MODEL OF A SHOE
18TH CENTURY
It is fashioned in the form of a lotus shoe, of
teardrop form with the toe ending in a raised
point. The sides of the shoe are impressed with a
repeating cash motif in imitation of quilted silk.
4æ in. (12 cm.) long
£2,000-3,000 $2,700-3,900
€2,300-3,300
清十八世紀 黑地粉彩鞋

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