Water Dropper

Qingbai porcelain water dropper, China, Southern Song dynasty, 1127-1279. Length: 3 1⁄2 inches, 9 cm, Height: 2 3⁄4 inches, 7 cm. © Ben Janssens Oriental Art A qingbai porcelain water dropper of bulbous melon form with a rounded body that gradually tapers in towards the rim. The body has a short curved spout and a small loop handle is attached to the opposite side. The body is impressed with vertical grooves and a wave pattern decorates the top of the rim around the mouth of the vessel. The cover is also... [Lire la suite]

  PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freeman’s Asian Arts auction, Friday March 16th, brings together nearly 600 lots representing Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian works of art, and is scheduled to coincide with Asia Week in New York City.  With the world’s attention focused on South Korea, Freeman’s offers its own salute to the culture of Korea. A highlight of the sale is the group of Korean celadons, buncheong stonewares, and blue and white porcelains from a private Florida collection, representing seven centuries... [Lire la suite]

Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain water dropper, shuizhu, Early Kangxi period, circa 1680; 5 ¾ inches, 14.6 cm long. Price on request. © Marchant. of a recumbent piebald horse on a green glazed leaf-form base, with head turned to the side beneath its long flowing segmented mane and forelock falling between the pricked ears, the front legs bent as if about to stand, covered on the body with dark brown enamel patches on a pale cream translucent ground, the back with open oval aperture, the tail and mane... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1342. Water dropper in the form of the immortal Liu Hai, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 14.5 cm. Estimated price €1.000 - €1.500. Result: €992. Photo Lempertz Email sur biscuit. The immortal riding on the mythical three-legged toad. Covered with a blue and pale green glaze and painted iron-oxide, the head and hands unglazed. Literature: Compare a similar piece in: John Ayers, La collection de porcelaines chinoises de Marie Vergottis, Lausanne 2004, p. 98-99 Lempertz. Asian Art II China,... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 102. A white porcelain double-walled reticulated water dropper, Joseon Dynasty, 19th century; 5 ½ in. (14 cm.) diameter. Estimate USD 3,000 - USD 5,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2017 The globular form pierced with a large dragon and clouds, the inner wall forming a receptacle for water, the eyes of dragon decorated in underglaze-blue, applied with a glossy clear glaze. Provenance: Tokutomi Soho (1863 - 1957) Note: For a similar water dropper in the collection of Victoria and... [Lire la suite]

Lot 292. An unusual 'Jizhou' brushrest and water dropper, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368). Estimate GBP 4,000 — 6,000. Photo Sotheby's. moulded in the form of five peaks and decorated to each side with figures amongst trees and a dragon, with a short cylindrical spout to one end, covered in an amber glaze stopping short of the base to reveal a pale buff body; 9.8 cm, 3 3/8  in. Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, Londres, 09 nov. 2016, 11:30 AM 

Lot 15. A Junyao water dropper, Jin-Yuan Dynasty, 12th-13th century. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016 The conjoined pomegranate water dropper has two small holes towards the top of each fruit and is covered overall with an milky-blue tone glaze that falls in an irregular line to the foot. 4 in. (10.16 cm.) wide. The small cup that was originally attached to this water droppers is missing with some associated glaze loss - few collection marks in black to the base of one pomegranate  - an area of glaze... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1461, Two blue and white 'mandarin duck' form water droppers, Late Ming dynasty. Estimate 3,000 — 5,000 USD. Lot sold 5,625 USD. Photo Sotheby's. each modeled with the ducks swimming side by side, with a circular aperture on the back opening to the hollow bodies freely painted with plumage in shades of blue, the beak of one pierced to form a spout. Length 5 in., 12.7 cm PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF CORNELIA GUEST, FORMERLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF C.Z. AND WINSTON... [Lire la suite]

Lot 2472. An underglaze blue and iron-decorated water dropper in the form of the Geumgang Mountains, Joseon dynasty, 19th century. Sold for US$ 10,000 (€9,305). Photo Bonhams Of irregular oval silhouette displaying two opposing Buddhist shrines nestled amid finger-like peaks that also disguise an air hole at the top and a tiny water spot to one side, the surfaces colored with iron and cobalt washes beneath a glaze of pale blue-green hue that intensifies in color where thickly pooled, the glaze also covering the recessed... [Lire la suite]

Lot 829. A group of three Qingbai-glazed water droppers, Yuan-Ming dynasty. Estimate 1.000/1.500 €. Unsold. Photo Nagel L. 5,8-8,6 cm. Few small chips Property from an old European private collection  Nagel Auktionen, "Asian Art",  08/12/2015