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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 3, 2019 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Selected Imperial Ceramics from the Tianminlou Collection | 18 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE EWER |
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26.7 cm (10.51 in)
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20th May 1986, lot 43.
Chinese Porcelain in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1987, cat. no. 59.
Blue and White Porcelain from the Tianminlou Collection, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1992, cat. no. 84.
Tianminlou qinghua ci tezhan [Special exhibition of blue and white porcelain from the Tianminlou collection], Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, 1996.
Rosemary E. Scott, ‘Archaism and Invention: Sources of Ceramic Design in the Ming and Qing Dynasties’, George Kuwayama ed., New Perspectives on the Art of Ceramics in China, Los Angeles, 1992, p. 87, pl. 21.
Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Tianminlou Foundation, Shanghai, 1996, no. 90.
superbly potted, the generous pear-shaped body rising from a splayed foot to a waisted neck flaring at the rim, set on one side with a curved spout joined to the neck by a cloud-shaped strut, opposite the arched strap handle adorned by grooves and surmounted by a small loop on top and accented with three knobs of clay at the base, imitating metalwork studs, finely painted in deep cobalt-blue tones with simulated 'heaping and piling', with a quatrefoil panel on either side, one enclosing a branch of peaches with two fruit among blossoms and foliage, the other with a branch of loquat with many stylised fruit, the panels flanked by flowers of the 'Four Seasons' with pomegranate, peony, chrysanthemum and camellia, all between the neck collared by lotus scroll and upright plantain leaves, and the foot skirted with a band of upright lappet petals, the spout decorated with a foliate scroll, with ruyi-clouds on the strut and sprays of lingzhi on the handle, inscribed on the base with a six-character seal mark
