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A TURQUOISE-GLAZED THREE-PIECES GUARNITURE WITH GILT METAL MOUNT
the vases Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, early 18th century; the mount European, late 18th century
28,5 cm high each
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. nn. 3768, 3771, 3778.
All of flattened hexagonal form, the two pear-shaped bottles originally with small loop handles with loose rings to the mid section of the long neck (only one surviving), the baluster vase with a low domed cover, the turquoise-glazed external surface of the three pieces with a moulded and incised decoration of lotus flowers, ruyi heads and horizontal bands of leaves, the very simple gilt bronze mount framing the bases of the three pieces, underling the mouth of the bottles, substituting the lost original finial of the cover of the baluster vase.
A nearly identical seven-piece set of moulded turquoise-glazed vases with different types of mid eighteenth century French gilt bronze ormolu mount is in the British Royal Collection (J. Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 2 voll. London 2016, II, nn. 1420-1426); see also the mounted comparable pieces in the Musée Nissim de Camondo (D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und japanisches Porzellan in europäischen Fassungen, Braunschweig 1980, p. 313, nn. 285-286), the three pieces illustrated by Bondy (W. Bondy, Kang-hsi. Eine blüte-epoche der Chinesischen Porzellankunst, Munich 1923, p. 202) and the vase from the collection of Augustus the Strong (1670-1733), now in the Porzellansammlung in Dresden (inv. PO 7950).
