Lot Essay
Two ewers of the same type were included in the exhibition, Chinese Painted Enamels, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1978, Catalogue, no. 70
Property from the MARY C. BELIN TRUST
A GROUP OF PAINTED ENAMEL VESSELS
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A GROUP OF PAINTED ENAMEL VESSELS
18TH CENTURY
Comprising two rectangular covered ewers with indented corners and tall arched handles, one decorated with panels of birds and flowering and fruiting branches, the other with landscape and foliate panels, all reserved on diaper grounds; two small square trays with indented corners, one finely painted with pairs of birds, including phoenix, in a landscape setting, the other with a scholar and his attendant on the banks of a river; and a pair of small quadrilobed cups, each painted with quatrefoil reserves of various flowers against a rose-colored ground, some chips
Ewers 6 3/4in. (17.1cm.) high; trays 4in. (10.1cm.) square; cups 2in. (5.1cm.) across (6)
18TH CENTURY
Comprising two rectangular covered ewers with indented corners and tall arched handles, one decorated with panels of birds and flowering and fruiting branches, the other with landscape and foliate panels, all reserved on diaper grounds; two small square trays with indented corners, one finely painted with pairs of birds, including phoenix, in a landscape setting, the other with a scholar and his attendant on the banks of a river; and a pair of small quadrilobed cups, each painted with quatrefoil reserves of various flowers against a rose-colored ground, some chips
Ewers 6 3/4in. (17.1cm.) high; trays 4in. (10.1cm.) square; cups 2in. (5.1cm.) across (6)
Further details
See illustration of four