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A PALE-BLUE-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE WITH SILVER MOUNT
the bottle vase Qing dynasty, first half of the 18th century; the mount European, mid 18th century
24,8 cm high
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. n. 3912.
The pear shaped bottle rising from a circular foot, the tubular neck with two stylized dragon handles, the body with vertical ribs, overall covered with a very pale blue glaze, the neck with a silver mount with an openwork of floral scroll, the silver domed cover with a round ribbed finial.
A nearly identical vase with a gilt bronze ormolu mount is in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (see R. Kerr – L.E. Mengoni, Chinese Export Ceramics, London 2011, p. 89, pl. 121); the similar pair in the British Royal Collection has a French gilt bronze ormolu mount from the mid eighteenth century which hides the signs of the removed handles (J. Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 2 voll. London 2016, II, n. 1378-1379).
