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3200 楁㷗喯⭴㭼炻2011⸜4㚰8㖍炻㉵⑩3124嘇

A BLUE AND WHITE ‘FLORAL’ EWER 㬌⺷➟⢢䘬☐⼊㸸㕤㖶⇅∝䅺䘬㡐⼊➟⢢炻⍫夳㘗⽟捖䎈
Ⱉ⽉䩗⺈↢⛇ᶨẞ㯠㦪䓄䘥㘿⇣暚漵䲳㡐⢢炻檀12.5℔↮炻
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE ẍ⍲⎎ᶨẞ㯠㦪䲭⛘䘥漵䲳㡐⢢炻夳泣䥏伶埻棐1996⸜↢䇰
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735) ˪㘗⽟捖↢⛇㖶⇅⭀䩗䒟☐˫炻⚾抬䶐嘇106⍲108ˤ㖑㛇曺
剙ἳ⎗⍫䄏⊿Ṕ㓭⭖⌂䈑昊㓞啷䘬ᶨẞ⭋⽟㫦丷㝅䈉ᷡ䲳㡐
The ewer is finely potted with a a bulbous body, set at one side ⢢炻庱㕤㓭⭖⌂䈑昊㔯䈑䍵⑩ℐ普˪曺剙慱塷䲭炷ᶲ炸˫炻
with a c-shaped handle and a curving spout on the other. It is 楁㷗炻2000⸜炻⚾䇰117嘇ˤ
delicately painted in attractive vibrant tones of cobalt blue with
lotus scrolls and peonies, all between stylised flowers below the
mouth and leaf lappets above the base.
3 ƒ in. (9 cm.) high, box

HK$1,200,000-1,800,000 US$160,000-230,000

PROVENANCE

Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 April 2011, lot 3124

The form of the present ewer is based on the design of those in the
early Ming, Yongle period, and is comparable to two examples: the
first is a larger white glazed ewer incised with dragons (12.5 cm. high),
and another is decorated in underglaze red with dragons; both of
which were excavated in 1983 from the early Yongle stratum at the
imperial kilns at Jingdezhen, illustrated in Imperial Hongwu and Yongle
Porcelain excavated at Jingdezhen, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1996,
nos. 106 and 108 respectively.

A blue and white example includes a Xuande-marked ewer and cover
also of pear shape and similarly decorated with peonies, in the Beijing
Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain
with Underglazed Red (I), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, pl. 117.

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