A RARE FAMILLE-ROSE TIBETAN-STYLE RITUAL EWER, PENBA HU

QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A RARE FAMILLE-ROSE TIBETAN-STYLE RITUAL EWER, PENBA HU
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The bulbous body raised on a spreading pedestal foot and decorated with composite foliate scroll bearing numerous small and three large blossoms which is interrupted by an iron-red dragon head with open jaws from which rises the curved spout, the knopped neck surmounted by a canopy-shaped mouth with slightly canted sides and rounding inwards to a narrow opening, all decorated with further composite and lotus scroll between formal and gilded bead borders
7 5/8 in. (8.1 cm.) high

Provenance

J. T. Tai & Co., Inc., New York, November 1963.

Lot Essay

For a full discussion of this type of ewer see the notes for the following lot.

A Qianlong doucai version of this form with very similar decorative scheme on a white ground is in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, London, 1996, p. 295, no. 612.

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