A Blue and White Cadogan Peach-form Wine Pot

Blue and white Cadogan peach-form wine pot possibly made for the Vietnamese market.
Qing Dynasty, 18th Century
Porcelain
China
H:12.5cm x D:15.5cm

This unusual wine pot is modelled in the shape of a large blue and white peach raised on a splayed foot, the spout and handle are both joined to the body by means of short branches with leaves and flowering prunus branches and are decorated in underglaze cobalt blue. Very finely potted, the naturalistic peach with rounded sides rising to an elegant point symbolises longevity. The foot is left unglazed exposing the clay body.

Known as ‘cadogan’, named after the Earl of Cadogan (1728- 1807), the tea pot has no opening at the top and is filled upside down through a tube running from the base into the upper part of the interior, so that it can be turned the right way up without any liquid escaping.

•  A peach form Cadogan wine pot with a turquoise glaze is in The British Museum, London, U.K. Accession number: 2012,3004.5

Provenance:
– Private European Collection