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A KINRANDE EWER AND COVER
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
The ewer has a pear-shaped body decorated in iron red, green, turquoise and
black with two large tear drop-shaped panels reserved on the iron-red diaper
ground, and with two peony sprig-flled quatrefoil panels, one positioned
beneath the S-shaped strut that attaches the elongated spout to the waisted
neck, the other below the slender, arched handle on the opposite side. The
cover is similarly decorated with an animal-form fnial.
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high, two Japanese wood boxes
$8,000-10,000
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Kanezawa, Japan, acquired in the 1960s.
明十六世紀 金襴手花卉紋執壺
(another view)
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