Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
Lot 137
A pair of London-decorated Chinese Jingdezhen vases and covers, circa 1750-55
1 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £4,000
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Jim Peake
Head of Department
Fergus Gambon
Director
A pair of London-decorated Chinese Jingdezhen vases and covers, circa 1750-55
Of hexagonal double-walled and panelled construction, the outer walls finely pierced and picked out in blue-green, reserving shaped solid panels painted with sprays of English garden flowers, the necks and covers similarly pierced and painted with smaller sprigs and insects including caterpillars and butterflies, the covers with brown line rims and flower finials, 35.5cm high (4)
Footnotes
Provenance
With Juno Antiques, 2021
Literature
White, Mary, Living at the Whites' House, Vol.4, 2023, p.322
An identical covered vase with a yellow, rather than a blue-green ground is in the David Roche Foundation Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia (inv. no.3209). Smaller lidded vases and matching beaker vases are recorded and all will have been imported from China into London as white glazed vases, left purposely undecorated. These vases will have been sold directly to a London-based porcelain enameller who has completed the decoration in the latest Meissen or Chelsea style. It is believed that much of the fine flower painting in this style was carried out in London in the workshop of James Giles.