A CÉLADON-RED-AND-BLUE-GLAZED ‘CADOGAN’ EWER

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A CÉLADON-RED-AND-BLUE-GLAZED ‘CADOGAN’ EWER
Qing dynasty, Qianlong period
14 cm high
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. n. 3787.

This kind of ewer is known after the name of Lord and Lady Cadogan who brought an object of this kind for the first time in Great Britain in about 1820. The ewer has no opening at the top and could be filled with water from a hole on the base which is then plugged with a cork. The model had a great success stimulating most of the European porcelain factories to realize similar shaped items (see for example the piece made in Meissen around 1725, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Pagodes et dragons. Exotism et fantaisie dan l’Europe rococo 172-1770, exhibition catalogue, Paris 2007, p. 195, n. 80).

A similar piece is in the Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet, Grandidier collection (inv. n. G 3023).