A BLUE AND WHITE EWER FOR THE INDIAN MARKET

KANGXI

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A BLUE AND WHITE EWER FOR THE INDIAN MARKET
kangxi
Heavily potted, the globular body flattened to a four-sided shape resting on a spreading foot and applied with a thin almost vertical spout and a strap handle from the shoulder to the compressed globular mouthpiece, painted in a strong, bright blue with a flower-head band at the upper section above a descending lappet collar, the body with two lozenge-shaped panels enclosing a peony spray and divided by vertical bands with winding leafy branches and stylised flames, crack to spout, rim chips and frits
10in. (25.2cm.) high

Sale room notice

Please note that the crack mentioned in the catalogue is a FIRING CRACK.

Lot Essay

This ewer is a rare example of the Jingdezhen potters using Indian metalwork as inspiration for a shape. In this case, a bronze water-vessel from the Deccan (North-East India) provides the shape, and the surface decoration may be based on what was probably originally an inlaid pattern.
Compare also the Arita version of this shape, illustrated by Sir Harry Garner, op.cit., pl.94A and p.62

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