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Mounted inkstand with porcelain cups late 17th-early 18th century, mounts: 1st half of 18th c
Black lacquer on wood painted and gilt, and porcelain with crackled glaze mounted in gilt bronze | 13.0 x 34.0 x 25.0 cm (whole object) | RCIN 971
China
Mounted inkstand with porcelain cups late 17th-early 18th century, mounts: 1st half of 18th c
China
Mounted inkstand with porcelain cups late 17th-early 18th century, mounts: 1st half of 18th c
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A mounted inkstand with three crackled porcelain cups. The gilt-bronze border of the lacquer tray cast with foliage and rockwork, on a lightly ridged ground, above a waved lower edge, with four bifurcated rockwork feet with cartouche clasps. Two of the three porcelain wells with pierced oak-leaf covers suspending cylinders, one for sanding, the other lined with glass for ink. Around the body of each, three growths of vines, on a circular ring foot issuing oak leaves and acorns. The central vase with a rockwork and foliate-cast rim around the top, identical to the rim of the tray, with a circular oak-leaf and acorn ring foot.
The mounts similar to those on the inkstand RCIN 9451.
The lacquer is Chinese dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. The cups were produced in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province. The mounts are French and date from the first half of the 18th century.
Text from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume III.Provenance
Brought by George IV in 1820. In 1820-21, Benois submitted a 'Note des petits objets D'Ornements en Lacque' purchased in Paris, including '1 Encrier porcelaine Cracquelee -140 francs' (Royal Archives GEO/MAIN/25376). Possibly en suite with the similarly mounted blotter RCIN 3486 & memo case RCIN 28853 which, according to an accompanying typed card, were all formerly at Brighton Pavilion, it is described in the Inventory of 1829 & was sent to Buckingham Palace March 1847. Described in the Brighton Pavilion Inventory in the Stores as ‘A Japanned black & gold Inkstand, with three old Crackle cups’; in 1921 it was in the Yellow Drawing Room, Buckingham Palace (1829B, p. 122).
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Medium and techniques
Black lacquer on wood painted and gilt, and porcelain with crackled glaze mounted in gilt bronze
Measurements
13.0 x 34.0 x 25.0 cm (whole object)
