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26 mars 2020

A fine and rare blue and white bird feeder, mark and period of Xuande (1426-1735)

A fine and rare blue and white bird feeder, mark and period of Xuande (1426-1735)

A fine and rare blue and white bird feeder, mark and period of Xuande (1426-1735)

Lot 3198. A fine and rare blue and white bird feeder, mark and period of Xuande (1426-1735); width across handle 6.6 cm., 2 5/8 inEstimate 800,000 — 1,200,000 HKDLot Sol 980,000 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

the small drum-shaped container painted in bright washes of cobalt blue with four quatrefoil cartouches, inscribed horizontally in two with the reign mark Da Ming Xuande Nianzhi - with three characters in each cartouche, the third panel filled with a cloud conforming to the shape of the panel and the fourth with another cloud and set with a small eyelet loop for attaching to the side of the cage, further decorated with triangular clouds in the spaces between the panels, all between thin bands of slip-painted horizontal raised lines separated by blue vertical lines encircling the unglazed mouth and the foot, the base painted in bright cobalt with a stylised floret, the cobalt with natural 'heaping and piling'.

Provenance: Eskenazi Ltd., London.

ExhibitedYuan and Early Ming Blue and White Porcelain, Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1994, cat. no. 24.

Note: Xuande-marked bird feeders of a variety of imaginative and ingenious forms are illustrated in Geng Baochang, Ming Qing ciqi jianding, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 49; fig. 85. The present example is unusual for the two moulded bands of studs, which may be simulating the nails used to stretch the leather head of a drum, and for the reign mark which has been incorporated into the overall decoration.

For further Xuande mark and period bird feeders with a small loop handle, see one of slightly more globular form and incurved rim decorated with camellias and a six-petalled flower to the base, included in the exhibition Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1989, cat. no. 48; another with a short neck and painted with a peony scroll published in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum. Blue-and-White Ware of the Ming Dynasty, vol. II, pt. I, Hong Kong, 1963, pl. 26; and a third example of related form, but moulded and decorated with a dragon, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 2010, pl. 1658.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 april 2011

 

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