A RARE DEHUA WINEPOT AND COVER QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

of cylindrical form supported on a thick footring and recessed base, moulded with ribbon-tied bands around the centre and applied with two sinuous chilong with a bifurcated tail clambering on the sides forming the spout and the handle, one side incised with a vertical groove and set with an rectangular raised panel at the rim impressed with an apocryphal four-character Chenghua mark, the narrow flat cover surmounted by a notched rounded knop

Collection of Carl Kempe.
Sotheby's Paris, 12th June 2008, lot 62.

Kunst Industri Museet Kobenhavn, 1950.
Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The Kempe Collection, Asia House Gallery, New York, 1971, an exhibition touring the United States and shown also at nine other museums, cat. no. 137.

Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 263.
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 594.
Chinese Ceramic Treasures, a Selection from the Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, Including The Carl Kempe Collection. The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, no. 790, p. 336.

There is a shallow glaze chip to the outer rim of the cover. There is a small chip of approx. 4mm to the rim of the collar. Otherwise the ewer is in good condition.
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Similar examples were sold in our London rooms, 9th November 2005, lot 253, and in our New York rooms, 19th March 2007, from the Condordia House collection. Compare also an example from the Collection of Peter and Nancy Thompson, sold in our London rooms, 7th November 2012, lot 14, originally from the Edward T. Chow collection, previously sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19th May 1981, lot 469. The model was copied in Europe by du Paquier after 1725, for an example of these rare Western versions see Sotheby's Olympia, 2nd June 2005, lot 37.