Pair of Chinese Export Porcelain Fruit Baskets, c. 1800

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The elaborate piercing was particularly difficult to achieve, with a high failure rate in firing. As a result, relatively few examples survive.

Compare an example in the collection of the St. Louis Museum of Art, object no. 27:1970a,b – https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/6337/

Provenance: Christie’s New York, “The Peter H B Frelinghuysen Jr Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain”, 24 Jan 2012, lot 2 Christie’s New York, “Chinese Export Art”, 24 Jan 2005, lot 265

Literature: Sir Charles Lawson, Memories of Madras, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1905