M4925
£65,000
Description
A Chinese porcelain blue and white jardinière modelled as a wood barrel, painted on the exterior with a wide band of two carp, a mandarin fish and another fish swimming amongst aquatic plants and lotus flowers, leaves and arrowheads above crested waves and rocks, the foot with a wide band of stylised ruyi, all beneath a blue ground relief band with triangular blue ground diaper of branches and relief blue studs imitating the metal original, beneath an incurved rim painted with a continuous scrolling branch, the slightly recessed base unglazed.
Wanli, 1573-1619.
28.3 cm high, 33.5 cm at widest point.
Condition
Excellent condition.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From a Japanese private collection.
- Purchased from Shogado, Tokyo, 20th March 1980.
- Sold by Sotheby’s Hong Kong in their auction of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 20th May 1981, lot 686.
- Sold by Sotheby’s Hong Kong in their auction of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 15th May 1990, lot 29.
- A similar example is in the collection of the Imperial Palace Museum, Beijing, no. 00075515.
- A similar example is illustrated in Toji Taikei, ‘Ceramic Great Series’, 42 Meiji Blue and White, Heibonsha, 1975, no. 83, p. 114.
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