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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JAMES E. BREECE III
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A RARE CHINESE EXPORT MOLDED AND GILT FIVE PIECE This set of forms is derived from domestic Chinese prototypes, known
GARNITURE as “five altar offerings” (wugong), used for rituals and burial, but the
1775-1800 set was adopted for Western use as purely decorative groupings
Comprising two beaker and three baluster vases with covers, each for chimney shelves, mantels or atop cabinets, and appear as such
is unusually molded in relief and then gilt and painted with scrolling in countless European eighteenth century European paintings of
vines and lotus, a cloud-scroll border decorates the shoulders of interiors. Mantlepiece sets were described in one V.O.C. letter, as
the three covered vases and at the lips of the two beaker or trumpet recorded by Christiaan J. A. Jörg, Pronk Porcelain: Designs by
vases (gu); a band of plantain leaves surrounds the bases of all, each Cornelis Pronk, Groningen, 1980, 54, as including “3 bottles and 2
is decorated with rare roundels containing different scenes of Chinese vases, as enameled, 40 colored and one gold, 40 blue and white
life, some courtly, others possibly from the theater, and garden views. (thus) 100 ps according to drawing...”
10 ¼in (26cm) high, with covers (5).
Such sets were mostly exported from the later seventeenth century
$13,000 - 15,000 until the late eighteenth century.
1775-1800年 外銷模印描金人物圖瓷瓶一套

Provenance:
Christie’s, New York, 27 January 2014, lot 332

來源：
佳士得紐約，2014年1月27日，拍品編號332

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