Whitley Collection, Featuring Chinese Export, Furniture, and Fine Art | October 29, 2024
Tue, Oct 29, 2024 10:00AM EDT
Live Auction
Lot 322
Two Chinese Export Rose Mandarin Porcelain Pitchers with Scalloped Rims
Estimate: $400 - $600
Bid Increments
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| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
first half 19th century, each with enamel and gilt decoration featuring flowers, butterflies, auspicious objects, and courtly and scholarly figures, larger example with Greek key banding, larger 6 x 7-1/2 in.
Provenance: Alma Cleveland Porter Collection, Beverly, Massachusetts; Collection of JoAnn and Whit Whitley, North Carolina
Note: The pitchers are illustrated in Jean McClure Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain in North America, p. 188 fig. 298
The pitchers were exhibited in the 1982 Chinese Export from the Alma Cleveland Porter Collection exhibition at the Peabody Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.
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Alma Cleveland Porter Collection, Beverly, Massachusetts; Collection of JoAnn and Whit Whitley, North Carolina
anomalies, pinholes, firing cracks, and glaze voids, some loss to gilt/enamel, some wear to bases, surface dirt/accretion; larger example with hairline to rim, enamel anomalies likely as made
