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Works of Art
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Works of Art du 18th century
Japanese porcelain coffee fountain, circa 1700
DIMENSIONS : l. 10.24 .inH. 15.75 .in
MATERIAUX : Porcelain and gilded bronze mount
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?Rare Japanese Arita porcelain coffee fountain with a mercury-gilt bronze mount.
The cylindrical fountain is topped with a removable lid. The whole features a beautiful underglaze cobalt blue decoration, with highlights of green, yellow, khaki, and red enamels on a white background; phoenixes in a setting of peony branches and rocky mounds.
A rich, finely chiseled and gilded bronze mount adorns the porcelain. It includes a base supported by rooster feet, a tap in the shape of a sea monster, and a lid opening handle decorated with a shell and a rearing lion.
In the greatest Nordic tradition, it symbolizes the four elements: air (rooster feet), earth (the lion), water (the dolphin), and fire (the porcelain, which is fired at a high temperature).
Very well preserved, with a previous restoration on the lid.
Porcelain: Japan, Edo period, Saga Province, Arita kilns, circa 1720.
The mount: United Provinces, Amsterdam or The Hague workshops, circa 1720-1730.
Dimensions:
Porcelain height: 28 cm
Similar models:
- Lorient East India Company Museum. Featured on the poster for the exhibition "Coffee, Pleasure with a Bitter Taste," which ran from April 130 to December 15, 2022.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Inv. No. 79.2.176a)
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Inv. No. EA1978.1090)
- Christie's, Paris, May 1, 2016, Lot 529
- Christie's, London, July 7, 2016, Lot 57
