Fine Tureen with Cover
First quarter of the 18th century

Covered pot on high, splayed foot with domed, unglazed base and glazed center. Globular body with squared handles molded as two opposed squatting legs. The Cover domed with same figural squatting legs. Decorated in famille verte enamels on both sides with tables and stands bearing flower vases and antiquities, including a figure of a phoenix in flight. Around the top lid displays a band of flowers on cracked Ice motif, while the main body band displays finely pained geometric patterns.

CONDITION:
Fine with no chips, breaks or fractures.

MEASUREMENTS:
Height 9.5 in
Shoulder 8.5 in
Base 4.5 in

SERIOUS ENQUIRIES ONLY PLEASE.

REMARKS:
Covered pots like this have been traditionally been called "side serving tureens" by collectors. Others think, however, that they were used as main stew serving tureens.
The array of objects featured in the decoration, usually referred to as the "hundred antiquities", is notable for its depiction of what was thought to be suitable for a scholar's collection at the time.

REFERENCE:
Bondy 1923, p. 129
Berlin 1929, No. 904
Jorg 1982, No. 69