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AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND The hallmark found on this ewer is associated For wine ewers and warmers of similar form but
COPPER-RED ‘IMMORTALS’ WINE with porcelains produced during the Qianlong decorated in underglaze blue with iron-red bats,
EWER, WARMER AND A COVER period, as noted in Geng Baochang, Ming see two attributed to the 18th/19th century and
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD Qing Ciqi Jianding [Connoisseurship of Ming with Yanghe tang zhi marks, sold at Christie’s
and Qing Porcelains], Hong Kong, 1993, p. New York, 18th September 2003, lot 321, and
of double gourd form, the upper bulb 383. Compare a similar wine warmer with a Christie’s London, 11th November 2015, lot 623.
comprising the ewer with a loop handle, curved Yongzheng mark in the Metropolitan Museum
spout, and deep protruding cylindrical base, of Art, New York, illustrated in Warren E. $ 20,000-30,000
each decorated with underglaze-blue bats Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol.
and copper-red lingzhi-shaped clouds, the II, New York, 1949, pl. 164, fig. 872. Another,
lower bulb comprising the warmer, set with in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, is 清乾隆 青花釉裏紅八仙過海紋
two beast-mask handles, all painted with the inscribed with a Caihua tang zhi (‘Hall of
Eight Daoist Immortals in underglaze blue Brilliant Splendor’) mark, acc. no. 911.8.60A- 葫蘆形套壺
against a ground of swirling copper red waves, C. A third example, inscribed with a Yanghe 《恭壽堂製》款
the recessed base glazed white and inscribed tang zhi (‘Hall for Cultivating Harmony’), in the
Gongshou tang zhi within a double square in collection of the Seikadō Bunko Art Museum in
underglaze blue, wood cover (3) Tokyo, is illustrated in Seikadō zō Shinchō tōji. 來源
Height 5¾ in., 14.6 cm Keitokuchin kanyō no bi [Qing dynasty porcelain 購於1960至1980年代之間，此後家族傳承
collected in the Seikadō. Beauty of Jingdezhen
PROVENANCE imperial kilns], Seikadō Bunko Art Museum,
Acquired between 1960s-1980s, and thence by Tokyo, 2006, cat. no. 41. See also an example
descent. sold at Christie’s Amsterdam, 10th May 2000,
lot 269.

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