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A RARE PAIR OF GILT AND GRISAILLE EUROPEAN-SHAPED PISTOL-HANDLED URNS AND COVERS Late Qianlong/Jiaqing period, circa 1795-1810
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A RARE PAIR OF GILT AND GRISAILLE EUROPEAN-SHAPED PISTOL-HANDLED URNS AND COVERS
Late Qianlong/Jiaqing period, circa 1795-1810
Modeled in purely European Neo-classical style and relief molded on both sides with a vertical oval gilt cartouche with a grisaille harbor scene above a gilt swag of laurel hanging from two upright handles simulating the grips on eighteenth century pistols, all standing on a square pedestal base, the shallowly domed gilt-rimmed cover with a bud finial.
16 1/2in (42cm) high (2).
Modeled in purely European Neo-classical style and relief molded on both sides with a vertical oval gilt cartouche with a grisaille harbor scene above a gilt swag of laurel hanging from two upright handles simulating the grips on eighteenth century pistols, all standing on a square pedestal base, the shallowly domed gilt-rimmed cover with a bud finial.
16 1/2in (42cm) high (2).
Footnotes
乾隆晚期/嘉慶時期 約1795-1810年 墨彩描金開光歐式槍把耳蓋墰一對
Published
Cohen & Cohen, A Game of Bowls, Gent, 2014, p. 60, no. 47
出版：
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《A Game of Bowls》，根特，2014年，頁60，圖版編號47
Like the blue-enameled vases (lot 39 in this sale) these are clearly based on classical urns forms that were popularized during the Italian renaissance and later disseminated around Europe. The Wedgwood factory in England used this model and they were also to be found in Marieberg and Rorstrand in Sweden and later in France, being particularly popular at Sevres. The Chinese versions of this design can be found in a wide variety of forms, with differing handles and covers, most have swags decoration and stand on square form bases usually painted to imitate porphyry or marble.
References: Grandjean, 1965, cat. 143, fig. 128, a single urn; Mottahedeh Collection, illustrated by Howard & Ayers, 1978, pp. 556-557, two urns; Howard 1994, no. 291, p. 245, a pair; Beurdeley 1962, p. 67, an urn of this shape with the 'urn mysterieuse' pattern; Cohen & Cohen, 2000, no. 28, p. 38, a pair with the monogram of Gustav L. Sifwertson.