An important porcelain Famille Rose wine-cooler. The body is decorated with flowers (notably peonies) together with bamboo branches and various blossoms. The neck of the bucket is adorned with a frieze repeating the body décor, on a background of brown-enamel motifs. On each side are two shell-shaped handles.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION :

This wine cooler is of particularly large size, unlike the commonly seen models, and could almost serve as a cache-pot.

BIBLIOGRAPHY :

For a similar silver-mounted example, see :

– Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.520a, b.

PROVENANCE :

Private collection

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