A rare export porcelain triple spice box and cover. China, Yongzheng Period, circa 1730.  photo Luis Alegria/TEFAF Maastricht 2011

Raised on three paw feet, the flower bud knop rising from a molded gadroon border, the arms once on the cover. Width 12.7 cm. With Louis XV Royal Arms of France - Price on application.

Literature: This spice box and cover come from a service ordered for Louis XV (1710-Versailles-1774) King of France and of Navarre, also known as The Beloved . This particular shape was inspired by models produced at both St. Cloud and Rouen.

Luis Alegria. TEFAF Antiques / Stand 167.

Founded in 1980, Luis Alegria specialises in eighteenth and nineteenth century marine paintings, seventeenth and eighteenth century furniture, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century Portuguese tiles and Chinese porcelain from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Av. Dr. Antunes Guimaraes 4100 Porto, Portugal.  Email:  luis.alegria@iol.pt