Featured Goose Tureens

Checking in while waiting for my item at the Americana sales in NYC and these 2 little guys caused quite a stir

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions...-nelson-happy-rockefeller-n10004/lot.322.html

'Two Extremely Rare and Important Chinese Export Armorial Goose-Form Tureens and Covers for the Spanish Market, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, circa 1775' each achieve $225,000 & $200,000 in #NYC #SothebysAmericana

 

How on earth did they survive hundreds of years without breaking those long necks? The Rockefellers must have had very careful maids.

 

Turned out to be worth a few golden eggs did they?

 

Amazing, in so many ways!

 

Not a Clue!

lol, yeah, i hear you and it works for me but, somehow i don't think that's gonna cut it with Pot people

 

Sounds like they have great provenance and with a known armorial. It may have been museums bidding.

Not my cup of tea but I appreciate them from a historical point of view. What they say about them being likely copies of European porcelain seems to jive with what I've read though I haven't delved into them.

Here are some duck/goose tureens though they date them slightly later.

From Chinese Export Porcelain Standard patterns and forms, 1780-1880, by Peter Herbert and Nancy Schiffer.

 

Did any of others think about @Rayo56 ?
They are amazing!

 

Thanks for the heads up. Those are amazing pieces.

 

From the same sale/collection.......

One of only four published examples, this delicately and realistically modeled 'Rare Crab-Form Tureen and Cover, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period' brings $375,000, besting its $200,000 high estimate

 

These are not "working" pieces are they? I mean, one would not actually use them at the table would they?

 

That's a very very good question!!

However, I guess if you can afford it, you can use it too?

 

The crab is so cute. He'd make a sensation on my table before my cats broke off a piece.

 

Yeah, I don't know but, I am not a pottery person either so that's why i was asking.

 

YIKES! that piece would be about $40,000 dollars!

 

I'm sure when they were made....they saw some use !

 

Just part of the pile of expensive broken things.

 

I guess
I only collect "working" pieces, if i can't use it in my everyday life i am just not interested. Having a piece for "display" only just doesn't appeal to me.
The most valuable piece of paint decorated american furniture was found in the bathroom of Mrs J Insley Blair, it was used everyday & stored her bath stuff. I like the fact that although this chest sold for 3 million dollars, I don't think she cared, she liked the chest, she saw it & used it everyday in her bath and, that was THAT!
https://www.christies.com/features/Wishlist_John_ChestofDrawers-5647-3.aspx

 

You know while I agree with liking things to be usable, I guess it depends on why you have/collect things.

I have literally hundreds of pieces of old pottery and porcelain. Most have some damage. I "live" with them in that most of them are where they can be seen.

I have them because I'm interested in the forms, decoration, body and construction of old pots and many museums don't let you play with their stuff. (funny thing that) Because I've spent quite a lot of years volunteering in archaeology it's proven to be a nice blend of what interests me both in whole form and when finding sherds in the ground. (not talking about pot hunting but working with archaeologists on sanctioned projects)

So anyway, I don't actually use my pots for their original purpose but they still have a purpose for study.

That's my pot defense anyway.