26. M5497
£22,500
品名
雷纹奁式炉
直径:13.4 厘米
德化,福建
晚明,约1640
木底座及仇炎之旧藏盒子
Provenance & Additional Information
- From the collection of Edward T. Chow.
Edward T. Chow (1910-1980) was born in Yangzhou and at the age of thirteen was sent to Shanghai to study with the art dealer Zhu Heting, he was also mentored by Jacob Melchior, a Danish collector working in the Customs Service. He met many of the great Western collectors and moved to Hong Kong in 1947 where he built his reputation as a dealer and significant collector of Chinese ceramics and works of art. In 1967 he moved to Geneva. Following his passing in 1980, his collection was auction in London and Hong Kong. - Sold by Sotheby’s Hong Kong in their auction of The Edward T. Chow Collection Part Three: Ming and Qing Porcelain and Works of Art, 19th May 1981, lot 472.
- Sold by Spink & Son, London.
- Formerly in the collection of Mr. H. Soudavar.
- Four similar examples, including two from the collection of the Imperial Court of Qing Dynasty, are illustrated by Wang Yamin and Huang Weiwen in Dehua Wares Collected by the Palace Museum I, nos. 102-105, pp. 251-254, where the author notes that these examples follow a Xuande bronze shape, no. 105 was also on display at the Summer Palace; three different censers, all with similar central bands are illustrated by Regina Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Vol 2, 1994, nos. 994-996, pp. 298/9, who notes that “the prototypes were probably all Ming dynasty bronzes, which in turn emulated archaic bronzes”.
- A similar example from the collection of Chingwah Lee was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Blanc de Chine, 1985, no. 67, p. 33; and another from the collection of Captain J. Meuldijk, The Netherlands, was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Blanc de Chine, 2014, no. 88, p. 116, where it notes “three others are illustrated by Colin Sheaf and Richard Kilburn in The Hatcher Porcelain Cargos, The Complete Record, 1988, pl. 113, p. 73, which were salvaged from a vessel sunk in the South China Sea between 1643 and 1644, dated as such because two covered blue and white oviform jars salvaged were inscribed with a cyclical date”; a further example is illustrated by Wang Qingzheng in Selected Ceramics from The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Hu, Shanghai Museum, 1989, no. 31, p. 64.
- It is possible that this piece is incised on the well of the interior with the number qi, “7”.