Lot 49
49
A VERY RARE TREE-SHREW TUREEN, COVER AND FIXED STAND
A VERY RARE TREE-SHREW TUREEN, COVER AND FIXED STAND
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A VERY RARE TREE-SHREW TUREEN, COVER AND FIXED STAND

CIRCA 1755

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A VERY RARE TREE-SHREW TUREEN, COVER AND FIXED STAND
CIRCA 1755
Modeled as a large tree-shrew nibbling berries, two shrew pups beside her, on a fixed leaf-shaped stand enameled with flowers and cell-pattern border, the cover in a similar leaf-shape with a seated tree-shrew as the knop
8 ½ in. (21,5 cm) long
Literature
op. cit., p.148, no. 9.4.

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Lot Essay

This rare object was probably intended as a trinket box rather than a sauce tureen because of the fixed. A charming and amusing decorative object, the tree shrew relates to such rarities as the crab-form tureens or the boxes and covers in eggplant form.
A single is illustrated in E. Gordon, Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain, The Main Street Press, Pittstown, 1974, p. 98, no. 85, a mirror to this one and possible once part of a unique pair.

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