
Coco Li
Cataloguer / Sale Coordinator, Chinese Works of Art
This auction has ended. View lot details




Sold for US$15,360 inc. premium
Our Impressionist and Modern Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialist
Cataloguer / Sale Coordinator, Chinese Works of Art

Senior Vice President, US Head, Asian Art Group

Vice President and Head of Department

Senior Specialist
十八/十九世紀 明式青花纏枝蓮紋鼓形凳一對
Barrel-shaped garden seats appeared in twelve century paintings made of wood or rattan. The present porcelain example models after the Ming dynasty prototype, when the Jingdezhen artisans perfected the techniques of firing large porcelain pieces. Compare, for example, the Ming dynasty blue and white barrel-shaped garden seat decorated with cranes and lily pads in lotus pond, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated on the museum's website, accession number 1993.386.33, noted by the author "rings of embossed dots around the top and bottom recall prototypes with fastenings for leather or fabric seat covers."
For a pair of identical barrel-form garden seats of slightly smaller size (17 1/2 inches high), see Christie's New York, 24 March 2004, lot 206.