A CONTINENTAL SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CHINESE BLANC-DE-CHINE PORCELAIN TEAPOT

APPARENTLY UNMARKED, THE PORCELAIN 17TH CENTURY, THE SILVER-GILT MOUNTS PROBABLY DUTCH, CIRCA 1680

Details

The oval body applied on each side with prunus blossoms, the silver-gilt cover finely chased with acanthus leaves and matting, the spout and handle mounts similarly chased with fruit and foliage, all attached by a chain
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high
Provenance

The Earls of Gosford, of Gosford Castle, co. Armagh.
The Gosford Castle Collection; Battersby & Company, co. Armagh, 4-13 April 1921, possibly lot 240.
With Kenneth Davis (Works of Art) Ltd., London,
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 26 October 2006, lot 47.
Lot Essay

This lot is accompanied by a paper label printed 'Gosford Castle Collection', no. 143.
The 2nd Earl of Gosford made extensive additions to Gosford Castle from the 1820s through the 1860s, employing the architect Thomas Hopper, best known for his restoration of Penrhyn Castle in North Wales. In January of 1862, visitor John Burges of Parkanaur visited Gosford and described the new interiors in his diary:
'We found the large room completed, all but the fireplace. The superb editions of county histories had all taken their places, as well as other folio and quarto works. The castle appears one immense library, for my room is full of books and all of the choicest kinds, with the most perfect binding. The new apartments consisting of long corridors and morning rooms belonging to this family, and sleeping ditto, are handsome and comfortable, and the beautiful and rare china in every apartment does not fail to give a most picturesque effect.'