A Ming-style blue and white ewer
Qianlong seal mark and of the period
Finely painted in Ming style with simulated 'heaping and piling' around the pear-shaped body with two large quatrefoil panels enclosing fruiting peach and loquat sprays, all reserved on a ground of scrolling peony and chrysanthemum, divided to one side by a long elegant spout joined to the neck with a cloud-shaped strut, and to the other side with a large strap handle above three bosses, the shoulder with a broad band of scrolling lotus beneath a band of stiff plantain leaves at the trumpet neck, all supported on a short spreading foot with classic-scroll band (old repair to base and tip of spout and strut).
26cm (10in) high.
Finely painted in Ming style with simulated 'heaping and piling' around the pear-shaped body with two large quatrefoil panels enclosing fruiting peach and loquat sprays, all reserved on a ground of scrolling peony and chrysanthemum, divided to one side by a long elegant spout joined to the neck with a cloud-shaped strut, and to the other side with a large strap handle above three bosses, the shoulder with a broad band of scrolling lotus beneath a band of stiff plantain leaves at the trumpet neck, all supported on a short spreading foot with classic-scroll band (old repair to base and tip of spout and strut).
26cm (10in) high.
Sold for
£16,800
inc. premium
Footnotes
- For a very similar example, see Blue and White Porcelain from the Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1992, Catalogue no. 84. For an early 15th Century ewer, which inspired the present lot, see R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Vol.II, London, 1986, p.519, Pl.618.
Category: Asian Art
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