A FINE AND RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND IRON-RED WINE EWER AND WARMER

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A FINE AND RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND IRON-RED WINE EWER AND WARMER
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The globular body flanked by pairs of lion-mask handles picked out in iron-red enamels, the wine pot supported on a tall cylinder that slides into the warming pot, finely painted in iron-red enamel with pairs of scaly dragons on the jar and ewer, the spout with a further dragon opposite a handle with bats, interspersed with cloud scrolls in underglaze-blue, the jar with a band of lotus petals around the base, the neck with a further band of dots--6 3/8in. (16.2cm.)high

Lot Essay

Cf. an example of identical decoration but slightly larger size with a Yongzheng seal mark sold in these Rooms, 25 October 1993, lot 828. Another example with different decoration in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is illustrated by Warren Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. II, fig. 872.

Previously sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15 May 1990, lot 202

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