The jug formed with a pear-shaped body rising to a straight cylindrical neck and set with a loop handle, the reticulated neck decorated with stylised floral openwork, the body painted with cartouches enclosing figural scenes set in garden landscapes, the handle with stylised scroll work Size:(20cm high) Qty: (1) Provenance:Santos Collection 來源： 桑托斯收藏 This present lot is also illustrated in A. Varela Santos,100 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain, 2014/2015, cat. 28. 本拍品亦著錄於 A. Varela Santos，《100 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain》，2014/2015 年，圖錄編號 28。 Notes: See a comparable puzzle jug in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no. 79.2.174. The catalogue description notes that the model is derived from one originating in English pottery by 1653, and was copied at the Dutch Delft factories by the early 18th century. See an another comparable puzzle jug sold at Christie's, Amsterdam, 21 November 2007, lot 94. Please see other similar examples in E. Gordon, Chinese Export Porcelain, Chinese Export Porcelain, essay Crosscurrents in China Trade Porcelain by C. le Corbeiller, p. 52, fig. 2, for an identical jug at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; L’Odyssée de la Porcelaine Chinoise, exhibition catalogue, Paris 2003, p.148 for a similar piece; C. le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain, A Study in Double Reflections, China Institute in America 1973, p. 21, cat. 6 for a similar jug; D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande, fig. 105 for a similar jug; Dr C.J.A. Jörg, Interaction in Ceramics: Oriental Porcelain and Delftware, by Dr C.J.A. Jörg, 1984 Hong Kong, p. 78, cat. 36 for a similar jug. 參見一件相類之「智巧壺」，現藏於紐約大都會藝術博物館，館藏編號 79.2.174。館方圖錄說明指出，此式樣源自英國陶器，至一六五三年已有例可考，並於十八世紀初為荷蘭代爾夫特窯所仿製。 插圖： 《百年中國外銷瓷》 阿. 瓦瑞拉. 桑托斯， 2014/2015， 目錄 28。 參考文獻: 《中國外銷瓷》一書中, 編輯E. Gordon, 1977年出版,論文題目《中國貿易瓷的逆流》, 作者 C. le Corbeiller, 參考第52頁, 圖4所示紐約大都會博物館所藏一隻完全相同的水壺; 《中國瓷器的奧德賽》, 法國展銷會的目錄, 參見第148頁一近器; 《中國外銷瓷》，作者D.F.L. Scheurleer，見圖115一件相似燭臺； 《Jay Dorf收藏中國外銷瓷》，1966年10月17日佳士得拍賣圖錄，見一對施不透明釉近似器。