Four rare Chinese porcelain blue and white footed salt cellars, Qianlong period, c. 1740-1760. 1740 - 1760

Unknown artist

PorcelainChinese porcelain
12 cm, ø 8.60 cm
ConditionGood
Price on request

Menken Works of Art

• About the artwork
  A collection of four rare Chinese porcelain blue and white footed salt cellars.
  Qianlong period (1736-1795), c. 1740-1760.
  
  All are of ogee shape with a bulbous base resting on three scrolled feet. Three of the four salts are identical with a floral border on the rim, the body with a continuous landscape scene of plants, rocks and two cranes.
  One of the four salts is of slightly larger size and has a different decoration with flowering plants and trees, lacking the two cranes. All four salts have brown-dressed rims, the pedestal and feet have been moulded with grooves to make swirling line patterns.
  
  Ref:
  The shape of these salt cellars is highly unusual, a small group is recorded, with slightly varying decoration, all derived from Meissen porcelain. Round, rimmed salts with baroque scroll bases were designed for the very grand Sulkowski service made at Meissen 1735-1738. For the Meissen example see The Cleveland Museum of Art, inv. no. 1917.624.1.
  
  For similar Qianlong examples, see:
  Frelinghuysen Collection, illustrated in Four Centuries of Blue & White (Becky Macguire, 2023), p. 108, no. 71.
  
  A similar salt was also illustrated in Out of the Ordinary (Jorge Welsh, Luísa Vinhais, 2014), pp. 69, 78, no. 19.
  
  Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University, inv. no. 1994.10.2, illustrated in Chinese Export Porcelain in the Reeves Center Collection (Litzenburg and Bailey, 2003), p. 219, pl. 223.
  
  Dimensions:
  Largest salt: Height 12 cm, diameter 8.6 cm.
  Three smaller salts: Height 11.5 cm, diameter 8.8 cm.
  
  Condition:
  All are in excellent shape except for one salt with one broken and reglued foot.
  
  Inv. No: MW119
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