AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE TWO-PART LAMP

19TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE TWO-PART LAMP
19TH CENTURY
The lamp is comprised of two dishes, each decorated in inky-blue tones with two registers of shaped panels enclosing lotus scroll which are connected by four chains and hung by a hook attached to the upper dish. The base of the lower dish is inscribed with an apocryphal Xuande mark within a flower-form cartouche.
Each dish 11 in. (27.9 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. (1822-1904) Collection, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1879.

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Lot Essay

Two-part ceramic hanging lamps are very rare and very few appear to have been published. A similar two-part blue and white lamp dated to the Daoguang period, which is also decorated with lotus scroll, is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in Gu Taoci Ziliao Xuancui, vol. 2, Beijing, 2005, p. 294, no. 264.

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