A rare Ming blue and white elephant kendi
Wanli
Realistically modelled and painted recumbent with head raised, wearing a large fringed saddle cloth secured around the chest and haunches with straps hung with pendent tassells, all supporting a vase-shaped aperture (restored rim chip),
14cm.(5 1/2in.) long
Realistically modelled and painted recumbent with head raised, wearing a large fringed saddle cloth secured around the chest and haunches with straps hung with pendent tassells, all supporting a vase-shaped aperture (restored rim chip),
14cm.(5 1/2in.) long
Sold for
£19,120
inc. premium
Footnotes
- For similar examples of this rare kendi, see R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol.II, p.460; for another, see Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol.1, no.991; and for another, see C.J.A.Jorg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p.68, no.55, where the author notes that examples were found on the Witte Leeuw (1613) a cargo bound for the Netherlands
Category: Asian Art
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