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17 The overall shape of this ewer may have been influenced by Middle Eastern
A RARE QINGBAI EWER AND A COVER metalworks, which were imported to China from Iran and Turkey during
Yuan Dynasty the 14th century. Indeed, the multiple decorative techniques employed on
The shoulder applied on each side with phoenix in flight with scrolling tail, the vessel, such as moulding and slip painting, would seem to attest to the
fanning out into a lotus, below scrolling foliage and above petal lappets increasing demand for rich ornamentation which was later satisfied by the
containing ruyi heads, rising from a flared foot, the handle moulded as a use of underglaze colours.
sinuous fish-dragon, its mane forming a small loop for attaching the cover,
the curving spout issuing from the jaw of a dragon, connected to the Compare the ewers illustrated by J.Ayers, Some Characteristic Wares of
body by an elaborate S-shaped bridge, the neck surrounded by a band of the Yüan Dynasty, in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol.29,
ruyi heads alternating with upright lappets, all beneath a pale blue glaze, 1954-5, pl.38, fig.17, A.du Boulay, Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese
together with a matched stepped domed cover. Ceramics, London, 1984, p.110, fig.1.
24.7cm (9 5/8in) high (2).
A similar ewer was included in the Meiyingtang collection and sold at
£6,000 - 8,000 CNY58,000 - 77,000 Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7 April 2011, lot 39. Another example, sold at
HK$71,000 - 94,000 Christie’s New York, 22 March 1999, lot 256.

元 青白釉刻鳳凰牡丹紋帶蓋執壺

Provenance: a British private collection

來源： 英國私人收藏

Published and Illustrated: A.Joseph, Chinese and Annamese Ceramics,
London, 1973, fig.18, p.43 (offered as part of this lot).

收錄及出版： A.Joseph, Chinese and Annamese Ceramics, 倫敦, 1973
年, 頁43, 圖18 （此拍品附贈圖錄一冊）