A Taste of Rococo: Porcelain from an American Private Collection
A Taste of Rococo: Porcelain from an American Private Collection
A Rare Chelsea Kakiemon Decagonal Bowl, Circa 1749-52
Lot Closed
October 18, 02:10 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Rare Chelsea Kakiemon Decagonal Bowl, Circa 1749-52
after a Meissen or Japanese prototype, decorated in iron-red, blue, green, and yellow, the interior with two ho-o birds forming a roundel, the everted rim with a band of geometric design, the exterior with flowering indianische Blumen and bamboo issuing from rockwork, a ho-o bird perched on a branch, another ho-o bird in flight on the other side.
Diameter 7 3/8 in.
18.7 cm
Robyn Robb, London, bearing label
Ten sided bowls of this form are rare in Chelsea porcelain. Of the few recorded in the literature, perhaps the closest is the example painted in the so-called "flaming tortoise" pattern, in the British Museum, London, bequeathed in 1887 by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, reg. no. 1887,0307,II.101. The 1755 sale catalogue of the factory lists as lot 6 on the 5th day: "Two ten square basons of the flaming tortoise pattern, and 2 ditto butterflies old pattern".