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Pair of Chinese porcelain salt cellars with honeycomb walls, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue (qinghua), Kangxi reign.

Stock Number: 4121

Pair of Chinese export porcelain salt cellars with honeycomb walls, each sitting on three feet, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue (qinghua) with two fighting roosters, c. 1700, Kangxi reign, Qing dynasty. 1.4025 / 1.11136

Illustrated: Qing Export Porcelain, by A. Varela Santos, 2015/2016, cat. 11.

Literature:

L’Odyssée de la Porcelaine Chinoise, exhibition catalogue, Paris 2003, p.1146 for a similar salt;

• Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande, by D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, fig. 176 for a single salt.

中國外銷瓷青花六角形鹽托一對,鏤空蜂巢壁、三足,繪有兩隻斗雞的青花紋飾。約1700年。

清康熙。

插图: 清代外銷瓷, 阿.瓦瑞拉.桑托斯, 2015/2016,目录 11。

參考文獻:

•《中國瓷器的奧德賽》, 展覽圖錄,2003年巴黎出版,見第1146頁一件相似鹽托;

•《中國外銷瓷,特別訂製》,作者D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer,見圖176單件鹽罐。