A CHINESE SILVER-INLAID ‘SHI SOU’ STYLE BRONZE WATERPOT

A CHINESE SILVER-INLAID ‘SHI SOU’ STYLE BRONZE WATERPOT
17TH/18TH CENTURY

The vessel of beehive form decorated with a wide band of scrolling dragons in silver wire, with a frog clambering up the shoulder below its narrow mouth, with a two-character Shi Sou silver-inlaid mark and with a paper label for the Prof and Mrs P H Plesch Collections, no.Bh6, 196g, 6.5cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Professor Peter Hariolf Plesch (14th February 1918 - 5th March 2013) and Gerta Regina ‘Traudi’ Plesch OBE (4th December 1921 - 10th August 2013), purchased from Hugh Moss August 1972.

Exhibited: Oriental Ceramic Society, The Chinese Scholar's Desk 17th to 18th Century, Ashmolean Museum Oxford, 1979, no.18.

十七/十八世紀 銅錯銀水盂
《石叟》款
來源：Peter Hariolf Plesch教授（1918年2月14日-2013年3月5日）和Gerta Regina ‘Traudi’ Plesch OBE （1921年12月4日-2013年8月10日）收藏，編號Bh6（附標籤）, 1972年8月購於Hugh Moss。

展覽：東方陶瓷學會，The Chinese Scholar's Desk 17th to 18th Century, 牛津阿什莫爾博物館，1979年，編號18。