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A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘FRUIT’ EWER
A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘FRUIT’ EWER
A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘FRUIT’ EWER
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A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘FRUIT’ EWER

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

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A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘FRUIT’ EWER
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
10 ½ in. (26.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 May 1986, lot 43
The Tianminlou Collection
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Selected Imperial Ceramics from the Tianminlou Collection, 3 April 2019, lot 18
Literature
Liu Liang-yu, Ch’ing Official and Popular Wares. A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 5, Taipei, 1991, p.157
Rosemary E. Scott, ‘Archaism and Invention: Sources of Ceramic Design in the Ming and Qing Dynasties’, George Kuwayama ed., New Perspectives on the Art of Ceramics in China, Los Angeles, 1992, p. 87, pl. 21
Exhibited
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chinese Porcelain. The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, cat. no. 59
Chang Foundation, Blue and White Porcelain from the Tianminlou Collection, Taipei, 1992, cat. no. 84
Shanghai Museum, Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Tianminlou Foundation, Shanghai, 1996, cat. no. 90

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Lot Essay

The pear-shaped body is superbly potted, with an elegantly curved spout joined to the neck by a cloud-shaped strut, and a curved handle on the opposite side. The body is painted on each side with a large quatrefoil cartouche, one enclosing a fruiting peach spray and the other a fruiting loquat spray, each flanked by flower sprays.

Ewers of this elegant form were first made in early Ming dynasty, and are known with a variety of decorative schemes, such as floral scrolls, fruiting branches, and ‘three friends of winter’. Compare to a Yongle prototype of this form and almost identical decoration, illustrated in Imperial Hongwu and Yongle Porcelain, Taipei, 1996, no.59.

Ewers modelled after the Ming prototype became prevalent during the Qianlong period, see one in the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.214; one in the Palace Museum, Taipei, decorated with lychee and peach, collection number: Zhongci 000459N; and one in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, 1986, vol. III, pl. 2565.

Compare also a Qianlong example from the Meiyintang collection, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3 April 2012, lot 28.

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