16TH CENTURY

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A RARE KINRANDE EWER
16th century
Of flattened pear shape above a tall slightly spreading foot, the sides with a raised peach-shaped panel between the slender arched handle and long sinuous spout, enamelled in iron-red, green, turquoise, sepia and gilt with geometric patterns, rim chips and minor losses
95/8 in. (24.5 cm.) high

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Sale room notice

Please note this lot has a revised estimate of 12,000 - 17,000

Lot Essay

Variations of this distinctive group of kinrande ewer are mainly found in Japanese museums and collections. Several are in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Tokyo, illustrated in Inaugural Exhibition, Selected Masterpieces of the Matsuoka Museum of Art, pp.80 and 81, pls. 75 and 76; and in Selected Masterpieces of the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1984, col. pls. 78 and 79; see also S. Hayashiya and G. Hasebe, Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo and Rutland, 1966, pl. 82. Further two examples are in the Baur Collection, illustrated by John Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. II, Geneva, 1969, figs. A177 and A178. Two further examples with rare pierced panels and with a young boy enamelled to the sides are illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Chinese Ceramics, p. 206, pl. 107; and by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porcelain, Fribourg, 1978, p. 161, col. pl. 142.

Compare also the ewer sold in these Rooms, 5 December 1994, lot 199

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