SOLD - A Painted Enamel Kettle & Stand
Height: 13" 33cm
The spherical kettle stands on a spreading foot ring and has a curved spout and an overhead brass swing handle covered with raffia. The painted decoration is in the famille-rose palette with female figures and children in a landscape with rocks, grass and various trees.
The cover is decorated with a large blossom and surmounted by a brass knop. The stand has four cabriole legs painted with lions' heads and paws, the shaped sides with superbly executed floral decoration.
Qianlong Period
Height with extended handle 13" 33cms
Among the more modest objects of canton enameling for export, none can have exhibited more European influence than the kettles, stands and spirit heaters made between about 1740 and 1760. In terms of the form of the piece, they generally copied English silver originals of circa 1720, sometimes including an armorial to match a porcelain tea service.
Chinese, Circa 1755
For extremely similar examples see Howard , A tale of three Cities; Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong:
Three centuries of Sino-British trade in the Decorative Arts, no. 202, p. 157;
Wirgin, Fran Kina Till Europa, no. 252 p. 239.Qianlong C 1755
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