XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

Details

A FINE BLUE AND WHITE ‘ROSE’ BIRD FEEDER
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)
The vessel is delicately potted with a flat base rising to a compressed globular body below a tapering mouth rim, applied to one shoulder with a small loop handle, painted on the exterior with cobalt of inky-blue tones with a band of scrolling rose below the horizontal reign mark. The base is unglazed revealing the fine, white body.
2. 3/8 in. (5.9 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box

Provenance

A Japanese private collection, Nagoya

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Lot Essay

Compare to a few Xuande-marked bird feeders of identical design, including one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsuan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, Taipei, 1998, no. 5 (fig. 1); one excavated at the imperial kiln site in Zhushan, Jingdezhen, illustrated in Xuande Imperial Porcelain excavated at Jingdezhen, Taipei, 1998, no. 55-9; and one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 9 October 2019, lot 164.

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