Ewer
ca. 1725-1730 (made)
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This flask or ewer closely imitates a Chinese prototype made over a century earlier and exported to the West. The original shape has no handle, wheras the Viennese potter has used his imagination to add the naturalistic touch of a lizard handle in keeping with the exotic nature of the piece.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain, moulded and painted in underglaze blue |
| Brief description | Ewer of hard-paste porcelain with a lizard handle, painted in underglaze blue, made by the Du Paquier porcelain factory, Vienna, ca. 1725-30. |
| Physical description | Ewer modelled after a Chinese spouted flask or kendi, of 'double gourd' shape, the upper part of lobed hexagonal section everted and pointed at the rim, applied with a handle in the form of a naturalistically modelled lizard facing downwards, and a slender S-shaped spout moulded at the base with branches which extend in trails around the bulbous base of the ewer, painted in underglaze blue with borders of stylised quatrefoil flowers above naturalistic flower sprays, the lizard handle with tiny dots imitating skin, the spout with scales. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mr Louis Cahen |
| Object history | Modelled after a Chinese prototype from Jingdezhen, Wanli period, ca. 1590-1615, see C.90-1956. |
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| Summary | This flask or ewer closely imitates a Chinese prototype made over a century earlier and exported to the West. The original shape has no handle, wheras the Viennese potter has used his imagination to add the naturalistic touch of a lizard handle in keeping with the exotic nature of the piece. |
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| Accession number | C.33-1957 |
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| Record created | February 5, 2009 |
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