A PAIR OF IRON-RED AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOTTLE-VASES Kangxi, the European mounts later. Each with an elegant pear-shaped body, a bulge around the neck decorated with a band of stylised gilded chrysanthemum flower heads, painted around the body in salmon iron-red with spiralling stripes. Each: 27.5cm (10 7/8in) high. (2). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 清康熙 淡礬紅彩螺旋紋瓶一對（后配歐洲鎏金銅飾） Provenance: Nicholas de la Mare Thompson (1928-2010) (collector's notes) Acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, London, on 15 October 2015 (labels and collector's notes) Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: The Oriental Ceramic Society, China Without Dragons: Rare Pieces from Oriental Ceramic Society Members, London, 2016, pp.318-319, no.189 M.White, Living at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White collection, vol.4, n.p, 2023, p.311 (Published and Illustrated) 來源：Nicholas de la Mare Thompson (1928-2010)（藏家筆記） 獲得于倫敦古董商R & G McPherson Antiques，2015年10月15日（標簽和藏家筆記） 展覽著錄：東方陶瓷學會，《龍隱: 英國東方陶瓷學會會員珍稀藏品展圖錄》，倫敦，2016年，第318-319頁，編號189 M.White，《Living at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White collection》，第4冊，無出版地，2023年，第311頁（著錄） The shape of the present lot was popular for export during the Kangxi period and was likely influenced by Persian metalwork and ceramic prototypes. The design of the spiralling bands recalls glassmaking techniques, particularly those associated with the late 16th century Venetian latticino glassware, though it was not necessarily copied directly from an Italian original. Venetian glass was widely imitated in northern Europe in the 17th century and continued in practice into the 18th century. The present lot may have been inspired by a Dutch glass reinterpretation of a Venetian model. See further discussion and a similar iron-red and gilt bottle-vase, ca.1715-1725, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, winter 2003, p.11 and pl.7. See a similar pair of vases with thinner spirals and gilt-bronze mounts, illustrated in Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur, Winterthur, 2005, cover and no.106. See a similar iron-red enamelled and gilt bottle-vase but without mount, Kangxi, which was sold at Bonhams London, 7 November 2019, lot 62. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing