Lot Essay
Previously sold in Hong Kong, 14 November 1989, lot 125.
A similar example in the Baur Collection, Geneva, is illustrated in the Catalogue, vol. IV. fig. A539, no. 518, where Ayers in an accompanying footnote cites other comparable waterpots: in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in the Catalogue, part 3, B. 702; in the Palace Museum, Beijing, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, pl. 24, and in the Shanghai Museum, Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 84, and the jar in the Musee Guimet, depicted by Grandidier, La Ceramique Chinoise, Paris, 1894, pl. XXII, no. 59.
(US$154,000-190,000)
A similar example in the Baur Collection, Geneva, is illustrated in the Catalogue, vol. IV. fig. A539, no. 518, where Ayers in an accompanying footnote cites other comparable waterpots: in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in the Catalogue, part 3, B. 702; in the Palace Museum, Beijing, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, pl. 24, and in the Shanghai Museum, Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 84, and the jar in the Musee Guimet, depicted by Grandidier, La Ceramique Chinoise, Paris, 1894, pl. XXII, no. 59.
(US$154,000-190,000)