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Mounted inkstand with porcelain late 17th to 18th century, cups: 1730-60, mounts: 18th c
Black lacquer on wood painted and gilt, and porcelain with cracked glaze mounted in gilt bronze | 9.0 x 23.0 x 14.0 cm (whole object) | RCIN 970
China
Mounted inkstand with porcelain late 17th to 18th century, cups: 1730-60, mounts: 18th c
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A roughly rectangular ink stand cut from a lacquer panel, set in a shaped and ribbed frame of gilt bronze with indented corners, having four curved acanthus-leaf corner feet attached beneath by screws. Mounted on the surface in oval quatrefoil bases of gilt bronze, two small, lobed, oval pots of porcelain with crackled glaze, their mouth rims fitted with matching gilt-bronze tops, with hinged leaf-spray covers and bud finials (the right-hand cover missing). The lacquer base painted in gold with bamboo stems and part of a balustrade in red, with a border above of lotus scroll in a cartouche set in a cash-diaper ground.
The lacquer is Chinese dating from the late 17th to early century. The cups were made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, 1730-60. The mounts are French, dating from the third quarter of the eighteenth century.Text from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume III.
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Medium and techniques
Black lacquer on wood painted and gilt, and porcelain with cracked glaze mounted in gilt bronze
Measurements
9.0 x 23.0 x 14.0 cm (whole object)
