A SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED FAMILLE VERTE EWER AND COVER THE PORCELAIN KANGXI (1662-1722), THE MOUNTS LATE 18TH CENTURY, FRENCH The ewer of pear shape, brightly and boldly enamelled and gilt around the body with two large long-tailed birds, one perched on a flowering tree peony branch and the other on a peach blossom branch, a third smaller bird in flight above them, the neck with a seeded green band decorated with a prunus branch on either side stopping with a large curling leaf at the small pinched spout, a narrow green floral band with cartouches above the foot, the loop handle with a stylised lotus scroll and the shallow domed cover with a roundel depicting a long-tailed bird on a prunus branch and insects in flight within a seeded green band at the rim, the cover rim mounted in silver-gilt and attached to the handle with a hinged leaf-shaped thumbpiece, small chip on foot rim restored overall height 8¾ in. (22.3 cm.)
A SILVER-GILT-MOUNTED FAMILLE VERTE EWER AND COVER THE PORCELAIN KANGXI (1662-1722), THE MOUNTS LATE 18TH CENTURY, FRENCH The ewer of pear shape, brightly and boldly enamelled and gilt around the body with two large long-tailed birds, one perched on a flowering tree peony branch and the other on a peach blossom branch, a third smaller bird in flight above them, the neck with a seeded green band decorated with a prunus branch on either side stopping with a large curling leaf at the small pinched spout, a narrow green floral band with cartouches above the foot, the loop handle with a stylised lotus scroll and the shallow domed cover with a roundel depicting a long-tailed bird on a prunus branch and insects in flight within a seeded green band at the rim, the cover rim mounted in silver-gilt and attached to the handle with a hinged leaf-shaped thumbpiece, small chip on foot rim restored overall height 8¾ in. (22.3 cm.)
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