A BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED EWER, VIETNAMESE, 15TH/16TH CENTURY

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 AUD

bidding is closed

Description

each side wth a shaped pierced panel of a bird, painted with a mythical flying horse to one side and a qilin to the other, above birds on branches of prunus

Catalogue Note

REFERENCE
For a similar ewer, please see 'The Hoi An Hoard', Butterfields Auctioneers, 2000, Lot 126.