China: Ceramics

C05
Covered ewer
Ming dynasty, first half 15th century
height with lid 12cm, without lid 9.1cm

 
Covered ewer, decorated on each side in underglaze blue with flaming pearl and cloud motif, with handle, short curved spout and two horizontal lugs. The pale blue glaze stops short of the foot, exposing the reddish fired porcellaneous body above the flat base.
 

ex: Chang Chi Hung Family Collection, Hong Kong, 1971, and brought to Australia by Jane Carnegie

published: John Guy, Oriental Trade Ceramics in South-East Asia, Ninth to Sixteenth Centuries, Oxford in Asia Studies in Ceramics series, 1986, number 62, pages 93 & 94

private collection, Melbourne