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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE EWER AND COVER
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
The ewer has a compressed tapering body decorated with a
continuous river landscape below a band of ruyi-heads on the
shoulder below the neck, and is set with a faceted S-shaped spout
emerging from a lion mask opposite the imitation-bamboo handle.
The domed cover is decorated with ruyi-heads below the lotus bud
fnial.
8º in. (21 cm.) across, Japanese wood box
$15,000-18,000

PROVENANCE
Marquis Ikeda (1904-1988) Collection (according to label on the
Japanese wood box).
EXHIBITED
Tokyo, Sen Shu Tey, The Collection of Chinese Art II - Special
Exhibition ‘Strolled for last ten years’, November 2016.
LITERATURE
Sen Shu Tey, The Collection of Chinese Art II - Special Exhibition (another view with box)
‘Strolled for last ten years’, Tokyo, 2016, p. 83, no. 121.
明崇禎 青花山水紋蓋壺

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