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4 juin 2015

Aiguière en porcelaine bleu blanc, zhihu Dynastie Ming, époque Yongle

Aiguière en porcelaine bleu blanc, zhihu Dynastie Ming, époque Yongle

Aiguière en porcelaine bleu blanc, zhihu Dynastie Ming, époque Yongle

Aiguière en porcelaine bleu blanc, zhihu Dynastie Ming, époque Yongle

Aiguière en porcelaine bleu blanc, zhihu Dynastie Ming, époque Yongle

Aiguière en porcelaine bleu blanc, zhihu Dynastie Ming, époque Yongle

Aiguière en porcelaine bleu blanc, zhihu Dynastie Ming, époque YongleEstimation 60,000 — 80,000 €. Photo Sotheby's

l'élégante panse piriforme au col cintré se prolongeant vers des bords évasés, flanquée d'un fin bec verseur arqué relié au col par une traverse aux contours mouvementés et d'une grande anse galbée surmontée d'un petit anneau se terminant en pointe agrémentée de trois petits boutons, vivement peint des deux côtés en bleu de cobalt profond d'une large pivoine épanouie entourée de feuillage, sous une bande continue de lingzhidans des rinceaux, l'anse décorée de lotus et le bec peint de chrysanthèmes, accidents et restaurations. 27,9 cm; 11 in.

ANCIENNE COLLECTION ARTISTOCRATIQUE FRANÇAISE 

A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'PEONY' EWER, ZHIHU, MING DYNASTY, YONGLE PERIOD

ProvenanceAcquired in Constantinople by the French Ambassador François de Fumel under the reign of Henri II.
Thence by descent in the family.

NotesEwers of this form which originally had a matching cover, are considered among the classic porcelains of the Yongle period when ewer styles of the Hongwu reign (AD 1368-98) and the earlier Yuan Dynasty (AD 1279-1368) were developed and improved. Several examples recovered from the Yongle stratum of the Ming imperial kiln sites at Jingdezhen and included in the exhibition Jingdezhen chutu Ming Xuande guanyao ciqi, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1998, cat. nos. 57-59, illustrate the popularity of this form.

Ewers of this form were produced with many different flower or fruit designs. The present design with its lush peony blooms is, however, very rare. Only three other ewers of this pattern appear to have been recorded, two of them preserved incomplete: one ewer in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, with the bridge to the spout and the loop on the handle missing, is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, ed. John Ayers, London, 1968, vol. II, no. 619; the second ewer missing part of its spout, from the Ardabil Shrine and now in the National Museum of Iran, Tehran, is published in T. Misugi, Chinese Porcelain Collections in the Near East: Topkapi and Ardebil, Hong Kong, 1981, vol. III, pl. A80; the only ewer of this design in good condition from the Meiyintang Collection, was sold in Sotheby's Hong Kong, 4th April 2012, lot 38. 

Sotheby's. Arts d'Asie. Paris, 10 juin 2015, 10:30 AM

 

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