
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
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Head of Department, Director

Department Director

Head of Sale
Provenance:
Anon. sale, Sothebys London, 8 July 1969, lot 84A (purchased by Pinkus for £440)
A closely similar ewer with identical decoration is in the British Museum, Franks Collection (F.943), published by Jessica Harrison-Hall and Regina Krahl, Ancient Chinese Trade Ceramics from the British Museum (1994), no. 150; Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 65 (2000), p. 112; Helen Espir, European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain 1700-1830 (2005), p. 119, ill. 6. Another ewer, decorated with armorials commemorating a 1724 marriage, has closely similar flower decoration to the cover and spout, suggesting a date for the decoration of this ewer to the early 1720s (published by Errol Manners, Dutch 'Fine Line' and German Schwarzlot Decoration, in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society 65 (2001), p. 139, fig. 3, and sold from the Bernard Watney Collection, Bonhams London, 7 November 2003, lot 30).