Antique Chinese & Japanese PorcelainEuropean Ceramics & Works of Art
Chinese blue and white monteith, Kangxi (1662-1722) diameter: 13 in.; 33 cm. ; A Wood, in 1683 mentions a " a fantastical Scott called 'Monsieur Monteigh' who wore the bottome of his cloake or coate so notched"Samuel Pepys describes him as a “swaggering handsome young gentleman...with a good basse but used to sing only tavern tunes”. In contemporary inventories objects of this shape have been called variously: Monteth, Menteth, Mounteth, Munteth, Montef and Moonteeth. The earliest mention is:This yeare [1683] in the summer time came up a vessel or bason notched at the brims to let drinking glasses hang there by the foot so that the body or drinking place might hang in the water to coole them. Such a bason was called a 'Monteigh,' from a fantastical Scot called 'Monsieur Monteigh,' who at that time or a little before wore the bottome of his cloake or coate so notched U U U U.Diary of Anthony Wood, Oxford, December 1683condition: some repair SOLD
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