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A Very Rare Chantilly Covered Ointment Pot With Screw Lid
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Request Details
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Dates
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Circa 1735
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Description
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A very rare Chantilly covered ointment pot with a screw lid (pot à toilette à couvercle vissé), painted with a Kakiemon design of two storks, the reverse with a flying blue and orange patterned dragon over three leaf motifs. The cover painted with two blue storks and an elaborate kakiemon patterned border. Marked with a red hunting horn.
Provenance: Collection label for Mme. de Mondiargues.
9cm High
7cm Dia.
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Condition
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Cover broken and professionally restored - in beautiful working order
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Literature
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G. Le Duc, Porcelain tendre de Chantilly, p.82. Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé, Christine Lahaussois, Porcelaine Française du XV111 siècle Histoire, Motifs & Marques. P.58, no.2, for this very same pot and cover.
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