A large Benachrong porcelain teapot with metal handle from a monastery

Estimated Value:

600 € - 1.000 €

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incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China for the Thai market, 19th century
H. 26,2 cm
This unusually large teapot was made in China for the Thai market in the 19th century. It is decorated with typical Thai motifs in polychrome. The sides are decorated with three Thepanom figures, each wearing a wide necklace of flower petals and sitting on a lotus blossom within cartouches with a coral-red background. Between them are four Norasingh figures against a blue-black background, surrounded by stylised, flaming Kranok motifs. (The Thepanom is a celestial being from Buddhist cosmology. The Norasingh is a mythical forest-dwelling demigod with a human head, torso and arms, but the hindquarters of a lion and the tail and hooves of a deer). The round lid that sits on the teapot is decorated with a single thepanom.
From the estate of the Helmut Ploog Collection (1940-2024), collected since 1965, this jug is depicted in a photograph from February 1979 (original preserved)
Bencharong is known as a term derived from two Sanskrit words - panch ("five") and rong ("colour") - and refers to the number of colours used to decorate such porcelain wares. In practice, however, the number of colours varies between three and eight - Minim. Signs of age

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