AN EXTREMELY RARE FAMILLE ROSE EWER AND COVER COPYING ITALIAN (VEZZI) PORCELAIN Qianlong period, circa 1740 The globular body, tall cylindrical neck, spreading foot all brightly enabled in yellow, blue, iron-red and shades of green and pink with European baroque strapwork encompassing flower heads, arabesques and acanthus leaves, the high domed cover similarly decorated below the bud finial. 9 3/4in (25cm) high Footnotes: 乾隆時期 約1740年 珍稀粉彩仿意大利Vezzi瓷帶蓋執壺 Published: Cohen & Cohen, Angels & Demonslayers, Hong Kong, 2012, p. 13, no. 8 Cohen & Cohen, The Elephant in the Room, Antwerp, 2019, pp. 30-31, no. 12, where the authors outline the history of the Vezzi factory and discuss its products as a design source for Chinese Export ceramics. 出版： 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，2012年，頁13，圖版編號8 倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，2019年，頁60-61，圖版編號12，作者略述Vezzi瓷作坊的歷史，並論其設計為中國外銷瓷圖樣之藍本。 The shape and enameled designs of this rare piece are copied from ceramics made in North Italy at Venice, in the Vezzi factory. The coloring and bold designs are very distinctively European with no inspiration at all from traditional Chinese designs, the elaborate strapwork is known only on a very few Chinese Export services and individual made for European clients (such as the splendid armorial ones made for the Portuguese family Ataide). References: for a tureen, cover and stand see Beurdeley, 1962, p. 83; for the Portuguese context, see Castro, 1988, p. 87, featuring three services with the arms of the Bishop of Oporto; Le Corbeiller, 1973, has a general discussion of these pieces; and Cohen & Cohen, 2001, no. 9, pp. 14-15, a pair of tazze with similar decoration, and no. 10, a footed wine cooler with almost identical decoration (lot 85 in this sale).