A refinement beyond the use of gold paillons is the addition of enamels. This beaker with its four elaborate scenes of actors and monkeys amongst trees and buildings, has enamels in red, green, blue and black and is the most richly decorated piece that we know. It is further enhanced with a finely chased gold mount to the rim and the interior is lined with a thick gold foil.

Condition:
Breaks through the body and losses to the enamels, one 3 mm tip of bird wing (in green) replaced

Provenance:

Khalil Rizk Collection, The Chinese Porcelain Company of New York

Literature:

Espir 2005
Helen Espir, European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain: 1700-1830, (2005), p. 148, fig 48

Manners 2011
Errol Manners, ‘Gold Decoration on French, German, and Oriental Porcelain in the Early Eighteenth Century’, Journal of the French Porcelain Society, vol. IV, 2011, p. 35, fig. 15

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