A Chinese Export Boar's head Tureen and Cover. Qianlong period. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2012

The animal head naturalistically modeled with raised snout and staring eyes, the mouth open revealing teeth, tongue and fangs, his snout and ears glazed in peachy tones, molded around the jaws and neck with rows of bristles, the back of the head with two spiky bristles; 17 in. (43.2 cm.) long (2). Estimate $40,000 - $60,000 

Provenance: With Fred B. Nadler Antiques, New York, New York

With H. Moog Antique Porcelain, Atlanta, Georgia

A private collector

Notes: A boar's head of this model from the collection of Mrs. Lammot du Pont Copeland is in the Peabody Essex Museum and illustrated by W.R. Sargent, The Copeland Collection, p. 202, where the author notes that the records of the Dutch East India Company document an order of 25 boar's head tureens in the 1763 season. In 1764 nineteen were shipped home to Holland but a further order was not fulfilled because "the supercargoes considered them too risky."