DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Details
A MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE EWER, ZHIHU
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
The pear-shaped body with an elegant curved spout, joined to the neck with a cloud-shaped strut opposite a ridged loop handle, finely painted to each side with a quatrefoil medallion enclosing fruiting and flowering peach and loquat branches, flanked by flowering sprays, all between a lappet border with a lotus scroll around the shoulder (spout tip repaired)
10½in. (26.5cm.) high
DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
The pear-shaped body with an elegant curved spout, joined to the neck with a cloud-shaped strut opposite a ridged loop handle, finely painted to each side with a quatrefoil medallion enclosing fruiting and flowering peach and loquat branches, flanked by flowering sprays, all between a lappet border with a lotus scroll around the shoulder (spout tip repaired)
10½in. (26.5cm.) high
Literature
A similar ewer was included in the Inaugural Exhibition, Selected Masterpieces of the Matsuoka Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1975, Catalogue, no. 104.
An early-Ming blue and white proto-type is illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, 1986, vol. II, no. 618. A longquan example dated to 1400 and incised with hibiscus designs is illustrated in ibid no. vol. I, no. 226.
An early-Ming blue and white proto-type is illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, 1986, vol. II, no. 618. A longquan example dated to 1400 and incised with hibiscus designs is illustrated in ibid no. vol. I, no. 226.
Exhibited
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, Kwan Collection, 1983, Catalogue, no. 9
National Museum of History, Taipei, Imperial Porcelain of late Ch'ing, From the Kwan Collection, 1985, Catalogue, no. 9
National Museum of History, Taipei, Imperial Porcelain of late Ch'ing, From the Kwan Collection, 1985, Catalogue, no. 9