Lot 12. A small Dehua oil lap and stand, 17th century, ca. 1650-1700; 10.4cm high overall ; 9.5cm diam. (3 ). Sold for €9,600.  Photo Bonhams.

The compressed jar rising to a waisted neck and flared rim, the interior with a small cylindrical tube with an aperture at its base, the exterior incised with a five-character inscription, all supported on a bombé stand cut with three openings above the spreading foot, covered overall in an unctuous white glaze, wood stand.

Provenance: Christie's London, 19 July 1982, lot 168
Collection of Annelotte Elbrecht (1924-2013), acquired in 1982 from Gallery Gross, Wiesbaden
Lempertz, Cologne, 2 November 2013, lot 66.

Published and Exhibited: Daniel Suebsman and Daniela Antonin, Kangxi - Porcelain Treasures of the Kangxi Period, Düsseldorf, 2015, p.106, cat.no.135
The Dancing Dragon / China Contemporary, Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, 19 July 2015 - 17 January 2016, no.135.

Note: Several oil lamps of this type are known, see, for example, one illustrated in P.J. Donelly, Blanc de Chine, London, 1969, pl.40A; for another example from the collection of Robert H. Blumenfield, see Blanc de Chine. The Great Porcelain of Dehua, Hong Kong, 2002, p.35. See also John Ayers, Blanc de Chine: Divine Images in Porcelain, New York, 2002, p.64. A very similar oil lamp was sold in Christie's New York, 19 September 2006, lot 384.

Bonhams - Cornette de Saint Cyr. CHINESE ART FROM A GERMAN FAMILY COLLECTION, Paris, 26 October 2023