A large Louis XIV gilt bronze-mounted Chinese famille verte porcelain rafraichissoir – circa 1700-1710
The porcelain Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Height: 22.5 cm. (8 ¾ in.) Width: 30 cm. (11 ¾ in.) Depth: 26 cm. (10 ¼ in.)
Comparative Literature
For a pair of Kangxi Period porcelain covered rafraichissoirs with identical mounts in the Getty Museum, see G. Wilson, Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1999, pp. 30-32, no. 3 (ill.).