Ref: X39
Archive item - not for sale
Extremely rare Chinese blue and white monteith, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated with eight panels containing flowering branches with cranellated rim, diameter: 12 3/4in. 32.2cm. See a smilar bowl in the Metropolitan Museum: see Gift of Mildred R. Mottahedeh, 1978, Accession Number:1978.503Monteiths seems to have come into fashion about 1697. The rim was scalloped like its namesake's coat, or cut in battlements, thus forming indentations, in which a punch ladle and lemon strainer and tall wine-glasses were hung on their sides, the foot out. The rim was usually separate from the bowl, and was lifted off with the glasses and ladle and strainer, for the punch to be brewed in the bowl. When the punch was duly finished, the ornamental rim was replaced. A porcelain imitation of a Monteith is here shown, which was made in China for an American ship-owner, doubtless from a silver model. SOLD
