DEUX KENDI EN FORME D’ÉLÉPHANT EN PORCELAINE BLEU BLANC

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Property from a European Private CollectionChristie’s is honoured to offer this collection of Chinese and Japanese art in Art d’Asie and Art of Asia online this June. The collection was assembled over the last thirty years with the majority of works acquired from leading international auction houses and dealers including Spink & Son, Marchants, Vanderven and Vanderven and Jorge Welsh.

DEUX KENDI EN FORME D’ÉLÉPHANT EN PORCELAINE BLEU BLANC

CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, ÉPOQUE WANLI (1573-1620)

Details

DEUX KENDI EN FORME D’ÉLÉPHANT EN PORCELAINE BLEU BLANC
CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, ÉPOQUE WANLI (1573-1620)
Hauteur : 17 cm. (6 ¾ in.) et 18,8 cm. (7 3⁄8 in.)

Provenance

One kendi: With Luis Alegria Lda, Porto.

Further details

TWO BLUE AND WHITE ELEPHANT-FORM KENDI
CHINA, MING DYNASTY, WANLI PERIOD (1573-1620)

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Lot Essay

Similar elephant-shaped kendis are housed in the Topkapi Saray Museum collection. For further details, see R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul: A Complete Catalogue, Vol. II, London, 1986, pp. 729-730.
Other elephant-shaped kendis were recovered from the 'Witte Leeuw' cargo (1613) belonging to the Dutch East India Company. For more information, refer to C. L. van der Pijl-Ketel, The Ceramic Load of the Witte Leeuw, Amsterdam, 1982, pp. 132-133.
Additional examples were sold at Christie's New York on 23 January 2008, lot 234; 21 January 2009, lot 165; and 24 March 2004, lot 179.

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