A CHINESE FAMILLE-VERTE PORCELAIN COVERED EWER WITH LOUIS XV SILVER-GILT MOUNTS, THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1720; THE MOUNTS PARIS, 1738-44

A CHINESE FAMILLE-VERTE PORCELAIN COVERED EWER WITH LOUIS XV SILVER-GILT MOUNTS

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1720; THE MOUNTS PARIS, 1738-44

of pear form painted with birds on flowering branches, with a collar of green diaper spaced with flowers, the cover painted with a partly gilt flower spray, silver-gilt shell thumbpiece above the handle mount chased with shells, straight gadroon rim with spout projection chased with a shell

marked on both parts of handle mount with fox head discharge mark for small work, repeated on the thumbpiece

height 8 3/4 in.

22 cm