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Lot Essay
Previously sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 619.
A similar red-glazed ewer with a cap was included in the Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition of Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1990, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 75, and subsequently sold in these Rooms, 27 April 1998, lot 721. A smaller ewer was included in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Wares, 1989, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 74.
Cf. a blue-glazed example in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain, no. 31; a Qianlong example with a pale celadon glaze included in the Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition, The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, illustrated in the Catalogue, Part I, no. 158.
Monk's-cap ewers were used in ritual ceremonies of the Lamaist sect of Buddhism, and were mostly made in metal. The form was copied in early 15th century porcelain. For a discussion on Yongle ewers of this form, see Liu Xinyuan, Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong, 1989, Catalogue, pp. 98 and 99. For the early 15th-century prototype, compare the red-glazed covered ewer in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in the revised Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 14, Japan, 1976, pl. 32. For a white-glazed comparison, see the one sold in our London Rooms, 1 December 1997, lot 90.
A similar red-glazed ewer with a cap was included in the Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition of Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1990, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 75, and subsequently sold in these Rooms, 27 April 1998, lot 721. A smaller ewer was included in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Wares, 1989, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 74.
Cf. a blue-glazed example in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain, no. 31; a Qianlong example with a pale celadon glaze included in the Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition, The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, illustrated in the Catalogue, Part I, no. 158.
Monk's-cap ewers were used in ritual ceremonies of the Lamaist sect of Buddhism, and were mostly made in metal. The form was copied in early 15th century porcelain. For a discussion on Yongle ewers of this form, see Liu Xinyuan, Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong, 1989, Catalogue, pp. 98 and 99. For the early 15th-century prototype, compare the red-glazed covered ewer in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in the revised Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 14, Japan, 1976, pl. 32. For a white-glazed comparison, see the one sold in our London Rooms, 1 December 1997, lot 90.