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A BÖTTGER RED STONEWARE SAKE EWER

CIRCA 1715

Details

A BÖTTGER RED STONEWARE SAKE EWER
CIRCA 1715
After a Chinese Yixing original, formed as a globular flask with a tall cylindrical neck, the body issuing a quilin head spout, the neck moulded with a flaming pearl flanked by dragons among stylised clouds below lappet-shaped panels, the base of the neck with a band of stiff leaf-shaped panels reserved with pheonix on a stippled ground, above a stepped lower part, the body moulded with sprays of prunus, peony, stylised orchids and fungus above a further band of lappet-shaped panels, the spout incised with scales terminating in stylised waves (two small areas of chipping to footrim)
6 5/8 in. (15.9 cm.) high

Provenance

With Keoppe, from whom it was acquired in 1954.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

A similar example, formerly in the Ole Olsen Collection and bearing the Japanese Palace inventory number 232 R, was sold in these Rooms on 18th May 1995, lot 155. Another example with a Chinese Yixing original, still at Dresden, is illustrated by Willi Goder et al., Johann Friedrich Böttger (Leipzig, 1982), pls. 1/2 and 1/3. Also see Hans Syz et al., Catalogue of The Hans Syz Collection (Washington D.C., 1979), pp. 20-21, no. 4 for a similar example, and where it refers to the three bottles in the KGL. Sächsische Sammlungen sale Catalogue (1919), pl. 16, nos 36, 44 and 54; and the four in the Sächsische Staatssammlungen sale catalogue (1920), pl. 6, nos. 59, 60, 110 and 111.

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