Lot Essay
Cf. the similar ewer in the Museum Pusat, Jakarta, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Catalogue, no.165
YUAN AND MING CERAMICS
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD EWER
YUAN DYNASTY
Details
A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD EWER
yuan dynasty
Freely painted to the upper bulb with a wide border of blackberry lily above a stylized diaper band at the waist, the lower bulb with a chrysanthemum meander above overlapping triangular lappets, with a ruyi-head to the base of the curved handle and scrolls to the sides of the tall everted spout, the neck encircled with a key-fret border, all divided by single and double-line borders
4 7/8in. (12.2cm.) high
yuan dynasty
Freely painted to the upper bulb with a wide border of blackberry lily above a stylized diaper band at the waist, the lower bulb with a chrysanthemum meander above overlapping triangular lappets, with a ruyi-head to the base of the curved handle and scrolls to the sides of the tall everted spout, the neck encircled with a key-fret border, all divided by single and double-line borders
4 7/8in. (12.2cm.) high