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A GROUP OF FOUR BLUE AND WHITE
110 | BONHAMS PORCELAINS
Late Ming and 18th century
Including two ‘double-duck’ water coupes,
each molded as a pair of conjoined Mandarin
ducks, the coupe with the lighter shades
of underglaze blue finished with apertures
to the beak of the left duck (lacking covers,
chips, one coupe cracked); the third a thinly
molded Kraaks porcelain deep dish with
canted rim, painted with a duck and water
weeds in a reserve across the floor of the
well (chips, glaze frits); the largest a charger
from the Nanking Cargo, with floral sprays on
the wide canted rim and goldfish swimming
amid water weeds across the floor of the well
(minor chips).
5in (12.7cm) average length of water coupes
8 1/4 and 18in (21 and 45.7cm) diameters of
the dishes

US$1,500 - 2,500

Provenance of the charger
Christie’s, Nanking Cargo label numbered
224

See Christie’s, Amsterdam, The Nanking
Cargo sale, 28 April-2 May 1986: the fish
pattern in blue and white appeared in lots
l222-l250, pp. 36-39, each listed as 45cm
diameter. Lot 1224 (assuming it is this
charger numbered 224) is listed on p. 38 but
not illustrated.