Lot Essay
Previously sold in Hong Kong, 20 May 1987, lot 452.
Qianlong ewers of this form and decoration, modelled after early 15th century prototypes, are illustrated in Eastern Ceramics from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger, Ashomolean Museum, fig. 119, p. 54; by Krahl in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. III, cat. no. 2565; Macintosh, Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, pl. IX; and illustrated in ibid, 1981, vol. 5, no. 223; another was included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, 1984, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Catalogue, no. 64.
For Yongle examples, cf. Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 3, no. 28; Krahl, op. cit., vol. II, cat. no. 618; and Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 54, no. 29.427.
Qianlong ewers of this form and decoration, modelled after early 15th century prototypes, are illustrated in Eastern Ceramics from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger, Ashomolean Museum, fig. 119, p. 54; by Krahl in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. III, cat. no. 2565; Macintosh, Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, pl. IX; and illustrated in ibid, 1981, vol. 5, no. 223; another was included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, 1984, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Catalogue, no. 64.
For Yongle examples, cf. Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 3, no. 28; Krahl, op. cit., vol. II, cat. no. 618; and Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 54, no. 29.427.