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BLUE AND WHITE CERAMICS FROM AN ITALIAN COLLECTION
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘ELEPHANT’
KENDI
MING DYNASTY, WANLI PERIOD

modelled with its head thrust into the air, the tusks forming
a double-spout, a tall cylindrical vase on its back forming the
handle, its tasselled saddle cloth painted to both sides with a
ß oret reserved on a diaper ground
21.5 cm, 8½ in.
A similar kendi was sold in these rooms, 13th May 2009, lot
181; and another, recovered from the Witte Leeuw (1613) cargo
belonging to the Dutch East India Company, is illustrated in
Jean Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain in North America, 2000,
p. 68, col. pl. 97. See also a group of seven kendi of this type
included in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi
Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol II, London 1986, pls. 1294-1295;
and another example, from the Mottahedeh collection and
exhibited at the Virginia Museum between 1981-82, at the
China Institute of America in 1984, and at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 1984-85, sold in our New York
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rooms, 19th October 2000, lot 78.
£ 4,000-6,000
HK$ 44,200-66,500 US$ 5,700-8,500

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BLUE AND WHITE CERAMICS FROM AN ITALIAN COLLECTION
A BLUE AND WHITE ‘DEER AND CRANE’
BALUSTER VASE
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
the tapering body rising from a recessed base to a tall waisted
neck with ß aring rim, painted around the exterior with deer
standing beneath Þ r trees with cranes perched and in ß ight
above, the neck with two simple leafy ß oral sprays
46 cm, 18⅛ in.
£ 6,000-8,000
HK$ 66,500-88,500 US$ 8,500-11,300
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