the gently rounded sides rising from a slightly concave base, finely moulded to the interior with a classic scroll medallion enclosing a small boy amidst scrolling lotus and other water plants, encircled in the well by a broad band of classic scroll and a key-fret border, covered overall in a clear ivory glaze pooling in characteristic tear-drops to the exterior, the rim copper bound.
Exhibited: Kunst Industri Museet, Copenhagen, 1950, cat. no. 307.
Literature: Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 461.
Jan Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 88a, fig. 21d.
Sotheby's. London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork: Early Chinese Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008