Provenance:
- Private Collection, United Kingdom
Condition Report Available
€ 18,000
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This is a superb example of an Chinese export porcelain bowl, made after European silver examples. This typically shaped bowl, was originally intended to be used to rinse and cool wine glasses. The glasses could be suspended inwardly by their foot over the semi-circular notches around the rim.
The bowl is decorated on inside and outside rims with a diaper work decoration. This repeating pattern of connecting geometrical shapes, such as Buddhist swastikas (wan). On the main body are reserves with various flowering shrubs and plants. The combination of blossoms, birds and ornamental rocks, are the height of ‘chinoiserie chic’ in 18th Century Europe.
The shape of this bowl is so named after the slightly eccentric Earl of Monteith. Describing such a bowl in a diary (dated December 1683) Anthony Wood a Oxford Antiques dealer noted: “Monsieur Monteigh…wore the bottoms of his cloake so notched UUUU.”
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