A BLUE AND WHITE 'POMEGRANATE' EWER

WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'POMEGRANATE' EWER
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)
The ewer has a bulbous body surmounted by a tall slender neck rising to a flaring star-form mouth rim. The curved spout is decorated as a branch with molded leaves. The body is decorated with panels containing blossoming branches beneath a thin band of flower and wan-filled panels, all below the neck decorated with a bird on rocks amidst flowering plants.
7 ½ in. (19.1 cm.) high

Provenance

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 1980.
Collection of Julia and John Curtis.

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Lot Essay

The popular name for this type of kendi is 'pomegranate ewer', owing to the distinctive star-shaped mouth rim. A very similar ewer in the Fondation Custodia (Coll. F. Lugt), Institut Néerlandais, Paris, is illustrated by Maura Rinaldi in Kraak Porcelain, A Moment in the History of Trade, London, 1989, pl. 277, where the author suggests a date of circa 1595-1610 for this type of kendi.

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