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A RARE EXPORT PORCELAIN ‘FAMILLE ROSE’ BOUGH POT A RARE CHINESE EXPORT CIDER JUG WITH AMERICAN
18th century EAGLE DESIGN
Modelled in the form of a four-drawer French commode, with Circa 1810-20, made for the American Market
elaborate floral decoration at the drawers and raised gilt pulls The entwined strap finials with gilt foliage swags under a broad gilt
and ‘supports’, the side panels with cut out landscape panels of and enameled rose and melon border at the rim and spout, the two
waterways and birds in flight, the top fashioned with five openwork sides rendered in grisaille and bright enamels with a United States
apertures for flowers surrounded by leafy swags. eagle holding a blue ribbon with the motto meant to read ‘E PURIBUS
5 1/4 x 8 1/4 x 4 3/4in (13.3 x 21 x 12.1cm) UNUM’ but miswritten in gilt and perched on a canon embellished
with spears, standards and draped flags.
$2,000 - 2,500 7 1/2in (19.1cm) high

十八世紀 外銷粉彩花瓶 $2,500 - 3,500

This rare Chinese export model is probably based on a European 約1810-1820年 美國鷹圖水壺
faience example, presumably French. The form of Bombe commode
was popular in France in the mid eighteenth century. A near identical Provenance:
model was sold at Christie’s, London, The Collection of Ana Maria Butterfield and Butterfield, 19 May 1995
Espirito Santo Bustorff Silva, 29 April 2015, lot 40.
來源:
邦瀚斯, 1995年5月19日

See a nearly identical example sold Sotheby’s New York, January 22,
2006, measured at 7 7/8inches high, originally sold at Sotheby’s New
York, January 31, 1985, lot 283, from the collection of Scott Bartlett.

These cider mugs came in graduated sizes; their decoration may have
been prompted by the War of 1812.

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