M5580/1
£6,250
Description
Pair of Chinese famille verte sancai biscuit porcelain rhytons/libation cups, each in the form of a buffalo head with long ridged horns tied together with a rope and splashed all over with green, aubergine and yellow glaze, the eyes and horns picked out in darker glazes, the interior with a clear glaze.
5 inches, 12.7 cm high.
Early Kangxi, circa 1680.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From the collection of Edward Rathbone Bacon (1846-1915) and each bearing the collection label. For a brief history of the collector see Roy Davids and Dominic Jellinek, Provenance, 2011, p. 56.
- Formerly in the collection of Marvin Davidson.
- A similar egg and spinach rhyton is illustrated by Anthony du Boulay in Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, 1984, no. 13, p. 297; another with stylised hairwork painted on the head is illustrated by Howard and Ayers in China for the West, no. 604, p. 583.
Condition
Ears restored; horns retouched.
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