CIRCA 1715

Details

A BÖTTGER RED STONEWARE EWER
CIRCA 1715
After a Chinese Yixing original, with qilin head spout, the neck molded with dragons chasing a flaming pearl between ruyi and lappet-shaped bands, the body with sacred fungus, peony and stylized orchids
6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) high

Provenance

With Keoppe, from whom it was acquired in 1954.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 21 November 2005, lot 203.

Lot Essay

Compare the kendi illustrated by 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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