A LARGE CHINESE THAI MARKET ENAMELLED-COPPER WATER BOWL AND COVER

A LARGE CHINESE THAI MARKET ENAMELLED-COPPER WATER BOWL AND COVER
19TH CENTURY

The U-shaped body raised on a high stepped foot, decorated with blue-bordered lappets containing floral motifs, the body decorated with similar lappets and a repeated lotus bloom design, all below a domed cover, the interior and the underside of the foot enamelled turquoise, 27.7cm. (2)

Provenance: previously the collection of Alvaro Martinez-Fonts.

十九世紀 外銷泰國銅胎畫琺瑯黃地花卉紋蓋盌
來源: Alvaro Martinez-Fonts 舊藏。

Cf. The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Gift of Doris Duke's Southeast Asian Art Collection, accession no. 2004.12.6 for a very similar vessel. See also Smithsonian Institution, USNM 27271-4, illustrated in L. McQuail, Treasures of Two Nations: Thai Royal Gifts to the United States of America p.76-77, for a similar water bowl and cover as part of a larger enamel 'betel' set.