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五 53. Rouge-de-fer, grisaille and yellow-enamelled large goose tureen with detailed feather work in different tones of iron-red,
十 speckled on the lower body and neck and moulded on the folded back wings and upright tail, the long beak, legs and
三 feet in yellow enamel, the eyes and claws heightened in black, the interior white, the base unglazed.

35cm high, 35.5cm long, 23cm deep.
彩 Qianlong, 1736-1795.
繪
鵝 • Formerly in a European private collection.
形 • A similar goose tureen, from the collection of Mr and Mrs Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, is illustrated by David Howard
湯 and John Ayers in China for the West, Volume Two, no. 615, pp. 590/1, dated circa 1760-1780, where the authors
盤 note “Sizeable geese modelled at the Meissen factory by J. J. Kandler about the middle of the century show similar

naturalistic modelling of the feathers and a general inspiration of this source is unmistakable. A more probable
清 source for the invention of the tureens, however, is the Höchst Faience factory, patronised by the Elector of Mainz:
乾 various tureens were modelled here, possibly by G. S. Hess; but surviving examples are rare. In 1749 the factories’
隆 Director Adam von Löwenfinck, left and joined the Strasbourg factory, where goose, turkey and woodcock tureens

among others, were certainly modelled in Faience in 1750-1754, and in all probability under his guidance.
These acquired wide renown, and they remain perhaps the most likely originals for the Chinese models. Chinese
production of the tureens probably continued over two decades or more.”
• Another related example in The British Museum, given by Miss E. V. S. Carter, 1931, is illustrated by Douglas
Barratt, Laurence Smith, Jessica Rawson and Roderick Whitfield in The Worlds’ Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics,
Vol. 5, no. 47, col. pl. no. 47; and a further example in The Victoria and Albert Museum, collection nos. 72 &
A-1884, is illustrated by Rose Kerr and Louisa E. Mengoni in Chinese Export Ceramics, no. 110, p. 79.

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