A soft-paste winepot and cover Qing dynasty, Kangxi period

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

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Description

of cylindrical form, applied to the plain sides with a central ridged belt and two sinuous qilong forming the spout and handle, the flat disc-form cover with a further qilong forming the arched knop, covered in an even creamy-white glaze (2)

Provenance

Warren E. Cox, New York.

Exhibited

Chinese Ceramics in Chicago Collections, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1982, cat.no. 66, p. 76.

Catalogue Note

Examples of this type of winepot can be found more typically in Dehua or 'Blanc de Chine' ware. See a related 'Blanc-de-chine' winepot and cover illustrated in John Ayers, Blanc de Chine. Divine Images in Porcelain, New York, 2002, pl. 21; another with a wooden cover, from the Derek Bolton collection, included in the exhibition Blanc de Chine, S. Marchant and Son, London, 1994, cat.no. 63; and a third published in P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, London, 1969, pl. 60.c. Compare also a winepot of related form but with a different cover illustrated in Robert H. Blumenfield, Blanc de Chinese. The Great Porcelain of Dehua, Berkeley, 2002, pl. 41A.

A slightly smaller winepot of similar form was sold in our London rooms, 9th November 2005, lot 253; and another from the Edward T. Chow collection was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 19th May 1981, lot 469.