Description:

Elizabethan Gilt-Silver Mounted Chinese Blue and White Two-Handle Bowl
Xuande Mark and Period (1426-1435)
The cavetto and exterior painted with lotus scrolls; the bowl with double-encircled underglaze blue Xuande mark; the silver strap mounts chased with bands of Tudor roses. Bowl with age cracks.
Diameter of bowl: 5-1/2 in (14 cm); Length with handles: 8-3/4 in (22.2 cm)

    Notes:
  • Provenance:
    Christie, Manson & Woods, London, The Choice Collection of.....Rev. Montague Taylor, Deceased, May 19, 1897, lot 14
  • Condition:
  • As noted in the catalogue; also with apparently unmarked tested gilt-silver mounts; chip to rim of bowl where age crack begins; some tarnishing to gilt-silver mounts.


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