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Lot Essay
See another example illustrated by Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, New York, 1967, pl. 60 C.
An ewer of this form, with simple knop, was found by Captain Michael Hatcher in 1983 in the cargo of a shipwreck in the South China Seas in which two pieces were dated by inscription to 1643, illustrated by J. Ayers, Blanc de Chine, Some Reflections, T.O.C.S., vol. 51, 1986-1987, pl. 7 (bottom right). See also a very similar ewer sold by Christie's Paris, 14th December 2011, lot 284.
An ewer of this form, with simple knop, was found by Captain Michael Hatcher in 1983 in the cargo of a shipwreck in the South China Seas in which two pieces were dated by inscription to 1643, illustrated by J. Ayers, Blanc de Chine, Some Reflections, T.O.C.S., vol. 51, 1986-1987, pl. 7 (bottom right). See also a very similar ewer sold by Christie's Paris, 14th December 2011, lot 284.