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PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE Most likely copying a metalwork prototype, this
COLLECTION rare vessel would have been used in Western
and Southeast Asia to keep water free from
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE WATER impurities. Compare a similar vessel mounted
VESSEL with a gold 17th century Ottoman mount in the
MING DYNASTY, LATE 15TH / Topkapi Museum, illustrated in Regina Krahl and
EARLY 16TH CENTURY John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi
Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, vol. II, pl. 665,
the globular body molded at the widest point with 1986.
two raised horizontal ribs, with further ribs to the
shoulder rising to a deep bowl-shaped mouth, $ 30,000-50,000
the inside of the neck with a reticulated lter,
the body densely painted with broad bands of
lotus and peony scrolls, with a band of lappets at
the foot, and the waisted neck with segmented
orets, all divided by double line borders
Height 7⅝ in., 19.4 cm high
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