The bowl painted on the exterior with four reserves of pheasant and foliage in iron red, green and turquoise on an iron-red ground, the interior in underglaze blue with a central medallion of a small water bird amid lotus flowers enclosed by double lines and a diaper band around the rim, the silver gilt mounts late 16th- early 17th century, possibly Augsburg or Nuremberg.
Provenance:
– Collection of R.W. Brandt by 1923.
– Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Clark.
– Sotheby’s London, 24th March 1953, lot 60.
– Bluett & Sons, London, 1953.
– Collection Charles J. Aron.
– Bluett & Sons, London, 1963.
– Collection of Mrs. Leonard Dreyfus, 1963.
– Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc., New York, 1980s.
Exhibition:
– “Polychrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties”, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1950, no. 119.
– “The Arts of the Ming Dynasty”, Oriental Ceramic Society London 15th November – 14th December 1957, no. 219. (Lent by C. J. Aron)
Published:
– R.L. Hobson, The Wares of the Ming Dynasty, New York, 1923, pp. 116-117, pl. 6, fig. 2.
– Warren E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. I, New York, 1970, pl. 140 and p. 485.
– Roy Davids & Dominic Jellinek, Provenance, England, 2011, p. 50.
A rare and important ‘wucai’ bowl with silver gilt mounts (Ming dynasty, Jiajing period 1522-1566)
Description
Dimensions: 10.4 cm diameter
The bowl painted on the exterior with four reserves of pheasant and foliage in iron red, green and turquoise on an iron-red ground, the interior in underglaze blue with a central medallion of a small water bird amid lotus flowers enclosed by double lines and a diaper band around the rim, the silver gilt mounts late 16th- early 17th century, possibly Augsburg or Nuremberg.
Provenance:
– Collection of R.W. Brandt by 1923.
– Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Clark.
– Sotheby’s London, 24th March 1953, lot 60.
– Bluett & Sons, London, 1953.
– Collection Charles J. Aron.
– Bluett & Sons, London, 1963.
– Collection of Mrs. Leonard Dreyfus, 1963.
– Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc., New York, 1980s.
Exhibition:
– “Polychrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties”, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1950, no. 119.
– “The Arts of the Ming Dynasty”, Oriental Ceramic Society London 15th November – 14th December 1957, no. 219. (Lent by C. J. Aron)
Published:
– R.L. Hobson, The Wares of the Ming Dynasty, New York, 1923, pp. 116-117, pl. 6, fig. 2.
– Warren E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. I, New York, 1970, pl. 140 and p. 485.
– Roy Davids & Dominic Jellinek, Provenance, England, 2011, p. 50.
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