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98 SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK 14 MARCH 2017 MING: THE INTERVENTION OF IMPERIAL TASTE

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION
OF BERNARD AND JOSEPHINE CHAUS

AN EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND WHITE EWER
MING DYNASTY, EARLY 16TH CENTURY

the globular body rising from a spreading foot to a waisted
neck with a garlic-head mouth and upright mouthrim, the
serpentine spout attached to the neck by a S-scroll strut
opposite a tall looped handle, the body painted to one side
with a cruciform atop a pyramidal base with three spear-
like projections issuing from the cross, the principal motif
executed in a checkerboard pattern and surrounded by
scrolling pomegranates, on the reverse a winged gure
squatting with arms raised within a sun-shaped medallion
above a blue dot anked by scrolling pomegranate, the neck
with bands of pomegranate, lotus, and ruyi petals, the spout
with ower scroll anked by two pairs of ame scrolls, the
handle and foot each with a cloud scroll between two lines,
barbed cartouches encircling the bases of the spout and
handle, a double-lozenge with owing ribbons below the
spout, a ruyi head tied with a ribbon below the handle, the
foot ring unglazed

Height 6⅜in., 16.2 cm

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 21st - 22nd May 1979, lot 54.

1979 21 22 54

$ 60,000-80,000