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Pair of monteith wine coolers Kangxi c.1710-20
Porcelain painted in famille verte enamels and gilt | 31.8 x 54.9 x 38.4 cm (whole object) | RCIN 58938
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A pair of Chinese porcelain wine coolers. Each an oval, flat-based basin on four hollow claw-and-ball feet in green and yellow, having at either end a pair of fixed ring handles in the form of red-and-gold chrysanthemum blooms. The sides are encircled by yellow ribs framing the main band of decoration of an aged tree with various blooms, including lotus, peony, peach and chrysanthemum, with cash-diaper and chrysanthemum border below in red, and above, a deeply scalloped rim cut to hold the stems of ten wine glasses. Between are painted sprays, alternately, of peony and chrysanthemum. Inside are large carp and sea creatures among water weeds, with smaller carp round the sides.
Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume I.Provenance
Almost certainly acquired by George IV, perhaps ordered in imitation of a European metal original or ‘monteith'.
One inventoried at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, as ‘A large China Cistern, white ground, scalloped edges, on green claw and white ball feet, - enamelled with borders, trees, & flowers, rosette & ring handles, gold fish, crabs and flowers within, twelve and a half ins high, fifteen & a half, by twenty one & an half inches over’ (1829B). A pair answering this description was sent to Buckingham Palace in March 184. One was noted in the Long Gallery at Windsor Castle in 1914, and one in the Yellow Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace in 1921. -
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Medium and techniques
Porcelain painted in famille verte enamels and gilt
Measurements
31.8 x 54.9 x 38.4 cm (whole object)
32.2 x 56.3 x 37.6 cm (whole object)
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Place of Production
Jingdezhen [Jiangxi Province]
