A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE LOBED HOOKAH BASE

YUAN DYNASTY, MID-14TH CENTURY

細節

A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE LOBED HOOKAH BASE
YUAN DYNASTY, MID-14TH CENTURY
The compressed globular body segmented into sixteen vertical lobes and raised on a short, flaring foot, every other vertical lobe painted with various blossoming plants, including chrysanthemums, lilies, blackberries, camellias and lingzhi, the cylindrical neck painted with a band of lotus scroll above a border of classic scroll on the shoulder, the interior of the neck covered with a slab of porcelain and pierced with seven holes
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high

來源

Sotheby's, London, 1 May 1967, lot 80.
The F. Gordon Morrill Collection; Doyle, New York, 16 September 2003, lot 73.

展覽

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1971, no. 129.

拍品專文

Compare a slightly taller vase of similar shape, with floral scrolls painted on the vertical lobes, but with a flaring neck, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, The Herzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1992, p. 58, no. 50.