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AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE TWO-PART LAMP

19TH CENTURY

The lamp is comprised of two dishes, each decorated in inky-blue
tones with two registers of shaped panels enclosing lotus scroll which
are connected by four chains and hung by a hook attached to the upper
dish. The base of the lower dish is inscribed with an apocryphal Xuande
mark within a fower-form cartouche.
Each dish 11 in. (27.9 cm.) diam.
$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. (1822-1904) Collection, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1879.
Two-part ceramic hanging lamps are very rare and very few appear to
have been published. A similar two-part blue and white lamp dated
to the Daoguang period, which is also decorated with lotus scroll,
is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in Gu Taoci Ziliao
Xuancui, vol. 2, Beijing, 2005, p. 294, no. 264.
清十九世紀 青花纏枝蓮紋吊燈
來源
Samuel Putnam Avery（1822-1904）珍藏， 紐約。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1879年。

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