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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 6, 2016 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | The Pilkington Collection of Chinese Art | 15 | $****** - ****** | A FINE, MAGNIFICENT AND EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND WHITE HOLY WATER VESSEL |
sculpture
21.3 cm (8.39 in)
ceramic
Collection of H.R.N. Norton (d. 1961/62).
Sotheby’s London, 26th March 1963, lot 47 (£1350).
J.T. Tai, New York, 1963 (£1350).
Christie’s London, 23rd October 1967, lot 121 (4000gns).
Bluett & Sons Ltd, London, 1967 (4000gns).
Collection of Roger Pilkington (1928-69), from 1967 (£5000).
inspired by a metal prototype, superbly potted with a pear-shaped body resting on a bulbous stem and stepped foot, gracefully rising to a waisted neck sweeping up to a flared rim with rolled lip, the body set with a long facetted spout tapering to a lipped rim, boldly painted around the body in vibrant cobalt-blue tones with characteristic ‘heaping and piling’ with hibiscus blooms wreathed by a foliate meander of trefoil leaves, all above a band of stylised flowerheads against blue washes and a row of lotus lappets between raised fillets, the knopped stem encircled by a simplified key-fret band above stylised lappets and tri-lobed ruyi motifs, all above a band of hemispherical ball flowers arranged in a chevron manner, the underside of the rim and the foot encircled by a band of pearls on a ground of blue wash, the long spout painted with a stylised lotus meander between broad ruyi lappets, the top of the rim encircled by a band of stylised floral scroll within line borders, applied overall with a transparent unctuous glaze, save for two unglazed rings on the base revealing the greyish buff body