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Blue and white tankard, mark and period of Xuande
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 6th April 2016, lot 22

daxi/Studies of the Shanghai Museum Collections: A Series of sold in our London rooms, 20th February 1968, lot 88 and
Monographs. Mingdai guanyao ciqi [Ming imperial porcelain], again in these rooms 14th November 1989, lot 21, is illustrated
Shanghai, 2007, pl. 3-27. Compare also an example from in Nuno de Castro, A Ceramica e a porcelana Chinesas, Porto,
the Sir Percival David collection, now in the British Museum, 1992, vol. 2, pl. 18; and one from the collection of R.H.R.
included in Stacey Pierson, Blue and White for China: Palmer was sold at Christie’s London, 14th June 1982, lot 81
Porcelain Treasures in the Percival David Collection, London, and in these rooms 17th May 1988, lot 22.
2004, no. 18. A misfired and broken example of this design See also a Xuande-marked tankard painted with stylised
has been recovered from the waste heaps of the Ming blooms with feathery petals, once in the collections of Mr.
imperial kilns at Jingdezhen, see the exhibition catalogue and Mrs. Thomas Cole of New York and T.Y. Chao, was
Xuande Imperial Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Chang sold in our London rooms, 8th July 1974, lot 188, and twice
Foundation, Taipei, 1998, cat. no. 23.
in these rooms, 19th May 1987, lot 236, and 30th October
Tankards of this type have rarely been offered at auction. A 2002, lot 283, included in the exhibition Ming Porcelains:
similar piece, formerly in the collections of Edward T. Chow A Retrospective, China House Gallery, China Institute in
(circa 1950) and J.M. Hu, and later the Meiyintang collection, America, New York, 1970-1971, cat. no. 11, and is illustrated
sold in our New York rooms, 4th June 1985, lot 2, again in in Duncan Macintosh, Chinese Blue and White Porcelain,
these rooms, 7th April 2011, lot 53, illustrated in Helen D. London, 1986, pl. 23. Two tankards of this variation were
Ling and E.T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from sold in these rooms: one from the Su Lin An collection, 31st
the Pavilion of Ephemeral Attainment, Hong Kong, 1950, vol. October 1995, lot 314, and the other from the Pilkington
1, pl. 38, and in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the collection, 6th April 2016, lot 22 (fig. 2).
Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 674.
Another tankard from the collection of Mrs Wright Segelin,

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