Lot 199
199
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A RARE KINRANDE EWER of flattened pear shape modelled after a middle-eastern metal original, moulded on either side with an iron-red peach-shaped panel outlined in turquoise enamel and reserved on an iron-red cell-pattern ground embellished with green, yellow, and turquoise enamel Buddhist Emblems above a band of green lappets at the flaring foot, the neck with a band of squirrels amongst foliage beneath key-pattern and stiff leaves at the flaring cup-shaped mouth, applied with an iron-red serpentine spout and branch stretcher and a strap-handle above two foliate cartouches of figures on terraces (fritted and restored), 16th Century

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A RARE KINRANDE EWER of flattened pear shape modelled after a middle-eastern metal original, moulded on either side with an iron-red peach-shaped panel outlined in turquoise enamel and reserved on an iron-red cell-pattern ground embellished with green, yellow, and turquoise enamel Buddhist Emblems above a band of green lappets at the flaring foot, the neck with a band of squirrels amongst foliage beneath key-pattern and stiff leaves at the flaring cup-shaped mouth, applied with an iron-red serpentine spout and branch stretcher and a strap-handle above two foliate cartouches of figures on terraces (fritted and restored), 16th Century
24.8cm. high

Lot Essay

Compare other ewers of this type in The Matsuoka Museum of Art, Tokyo, illustrated in Inaugural Exhibition, Selected Masterpieces of the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Catalogue, pp.80 & 81, pls. 75 & 76; and in Selected Masterpieces of the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Catalogue, col. pls. 78 & 79; cf. also S. Hayashiya and G. Hasebe, Chinese Ceramics, pl.82 and another with pierced panels in M. Beurdeley, Chinese Ceramics, p.206, pl.107

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