Lot Essay
No other ewers of this design appear to be recorded.
It is more common to find ewers decorated with peonies or fruits enclosed within quatrefoil or cinquefoil panels. Only two related examples of this rare design with larger peony scrolls are known. One illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. II, no. 619; another with spout missing is illustrated by Misugi in Chinese Procelain Collection in the Near East, Topkapi and Ardebil, vol. III, no. A80, p. 158.
Compare also with ewers decorated with denser peony scrolls issuing smaller flower-heads on the body. Cf. the one illustrated by Misugi, op. cit., no. A81, p. 159. Another with six small peony blooms from the Osaka Museum is illustrated in Ming and Qing Ceramics and Works of Art, no. 1.9, p. 12; another is recorded by Pope in Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 54, no. 29.428.
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It is more common to find ewers decorated with peonies or fruits enclosed within quatrefoil or cinquefoil panels. Only two related examples of this rare design with larger peony scrolls are known. One illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. II, no. 619; another with spout missing is illustrated by Misugi in Chinese Procelain Collection in the Near East, Topkapi and Ardebil, vol. III, no. A80, p. 158.
Compare also with ewers decorated with denser peony scrolls issuing smaller flower-heads on the body. Cf. the one illustrated by Misugi, op. cit., no. A81, p. 159. Another with six small peony blooms from the Osaka Museum is illustrated in Ming and Qing Ceramics and Works of Art, no. 1.9, p. 12; another is recorded by Pope in Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 54, no. 29.428.
(US$100,000-150,000)