FAMILLE ROSE PEACH-FORM 'PHEASANT AND BAMBOO' CADOGAN POT QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD 清乾隆 粉彩雉雞竹林花卉紋壽桃型倒流壺 moulded in peach form standing on an everted foot, painted on one side with a pheasant in a bamboo grove, the other side adorned with various flowers, branches of moulded leafy stems encircling the top of the body, set with a hollow loop-handle with an opening at the bottom and an upward-pointing spout, the base with a very thin coating of glaze and a perforation in the centre (19.5cm wide) Qty: (1) Provenance: Private English collection, acquired in 2017; Formerly in an English private collection, Suffolk. Note: a comparable famille rose peach-shaped cadogan pot with applied floral design, dated to the Qianlong period, was sold at Rob Michiels Auctions, Belgium on 13th March 2021, lot 105. These peach form pots were a Chinese novelty meant to be a puzzling curiosity to a gathering of people who were sharing the wine. It appears there is no way to fill the ewer as there is no aperture on top, it seems impossible to fill it from the hole beneath as it would run straight out. The liquid is filled through a funnel in the base that extends vertically inside the pot to a height that prevents the liquid from escaping when the pot is turned right side up after filling. The later name, Cadogan, refers to teapots made in Europe, as well as the original Chinese form. It is said that William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan (1675 – 1726), was the first person to own a Chinese wine pot of this shape, hence the name. In England, the Cadogan teapot was particularly popular in the second quarter of the 19th century. A Meissen copy of such Chinese form and decorated in European style, dated ca. 1725, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number: 1974.356.488. It was modelled after a Chinese porcelain wine pot from the Kangxi period (1662–1722). ---------------------以下为软件翻译，仅供参考---------------------