CHINA. Porcelain tureen in the shape of a boar's head, polychrome enameled in iron red, grisaille and pink enamels. The boar is depicted in a naturalistic style. The mouth is open, revealing its fangs (chips, accident to the tongue, reattached). Compagnie des Indes, QIANLONG period (1736-1795). Height: 16.5 - Length: 21 cm Reference: - a similar example in the Peabody Essex Museum: The Peabody Essex Museum, The Copeland Collection, Chinese and Japanese ceramic figures, p.203 - another reproduced in Michel Beurdeley, Porcelaine de la Compagnie des Indes, Office du Livre, Fribourg, 1962, p.175. Expert : Cabinet Portier-Jossaume