TWO CHINESE ENAMELLED SPOON TRAYS

TWO CHINESE ENAMELLED SPOON TRAYS

QIANLONG 1736-95

One decorated en grisaille with the 'Lamentation of Christ', the base with a paper label for the Hervou‡t Collection, no.369, the other painted in enamels and gilt with the arms of Burrell in pretence Lewis?, 12.9cm and 12.6cm. (2)

Provenance: the 'Lamentation of Christ' spoon tray formerly in the collection of Dr Hervou‡t, collection no.369; sold by Marchant c.1985.

Illustrated: the 'Lamentation of Christ' spoon tray in F Hervou‡t and Y Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes, p.264, no.11.15.

Cf. D S Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, vol.II, p.707 for another item painted with the same arms as the smaller spoon tray.