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84 SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK 20 MARCH 2018 MING: LUMINOUS DAWN OF EMPIRE

!!" PROPERTY FROM THE DETRING / VON HANNEKEN
COLLECTION
AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND IMPORTANT
BLUE AND WHITE EWER
XUANDE MARK AND PERIOD

following a Sassanian metal prototype, the upright cylindrical body
rising from a short straight foot, painted in soft tones of underglaze
blue with characteristic ‘heaping and piling’, with a large composite
# oral meander, the open blooms including peony, musk mallow, lotus,
camellia and chrysanthemum enclosed by scrolling stems with their
characteristic leaves, the top of the rounded shoulder with a raised
band with pendent lappets enclosing ruyi-shaped trefoils, all below a tall
cylindrical neck painted with scrolling dianthus between classic scroll
and keyfret borders, set to one side with a spout of S-shaped pro" le
and rectangular section, pierced at the tip with a double-gourd-shaped
aperture and painted with ruyi borders, the other side with a wide
grooved strap handle, painted with detached # oral and lingzhi sprigs, the
foot ring with a classic scroll band, the base with a six-character mark in
underglaze blue within a double circle
Height 13 in., 33 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Gustav Detring (1842-1913) or Constantin von Hanneken
(1854-1925), and thence by descent.
׼܁ᅃ ڡڀᚂ،ڀ̓७ੂడ
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ᅃᆪ೙ 1842 1913 אဏॶ࣬ 1854 1925 ϗᔛdϤܝ࢕ૄෂו

$ 600,000-800,000