Lot Essay
See the almost identical ewer, with Dutch 19th Century silver mounts, in the Mottahedeh Collection, illustrated by Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London and New York, 1978, vol. I, p. 70, no. 28.
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KANGXI (1662-1722)
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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE EWERS AND COVERS
KANGXI (1662-1722)
With pear-shaped bodies, serpentine spouts, loop-handles and flat covers, after a Middle Eastern metalwork original, painted in a bright and vibrant blue on each side with a blue-ground palmette-shaped panel of flowering foliage reserved on a ground reminicent of cracked-ice pattern, the slender necks with stiff leaves and the spouts and handles with dots and floral motifs, minor chips
7½ in. (19 cm.) high (2)
KANGXI (1662-1722)
With pear-shaped bodies, serpentine spouts, loop-handles and flat covers, after a Middle Eastern metalwork original, painted in a bright and vibrant blue on each side with a blue-ground palmette-shaped panel of flowering foliage reserved on a ground reminicent of cracked-ice pattern, the slender necks with stiff leaves and the spouts and handles with dots and floral motifs, minor chips
7½ in. (19 cm.) high (2)
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