A rare painted enamel ewer and barber's bowl for the Portuguese market, 18th century18th centuryThe oval bowl finely painted into the well with mandarin ducks floating on a lotus pond, the cavetto with shaped cartouches containing floral sprays, the everted rim with further colourful floral scrolls interspersed with bold butterflies, the exterior with grapevines, 41cm (16 1/4in) wide; the nautilus-shell-shaped ewer brightly painted around the body with shaped panels enclosing lotus pond and ducks, floral sprays, and butterflies, reserved on a stylised leafy ground, applied to the side with a large strapwork handle and all supported on a similarly-decorated tall spreading foot, 27cm (10 1/2in) high. (2).注脚十八世紀 外銷葡萄牙市場銅胎畫琺瑯執壺及剃須盤一組兩件D.S.Howard and J.Ayers in China for the West, vol.1, London, 1978, p.144, pl.125, discuss ewers of this nautilus shell form and argue that they probably copied European silver or pewter, the scallop shell in particular being common from the 17th century. They argue that wares of this form date usually between 1720 and 1725. A Canton painted enamel ewer and basin are in the collection of the Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, illustrated by T.B.Arapova, Chinese Painted Enamels, Moscow, 1988, pl.2(3). See also a similar painted enamel ewer and basin, 18th century, illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol.II, London, 2016, p.954, nos.2136-2137.