China: Ceramics

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C07
Bottle of pear form
Ming dynasty, second half 15th century
height 17cm

 
Stoneware bottle with lead glazes, and carved and applied embossed decoration of two mandarin ducks and two lotus plants, one of which is flowering and the other with seed pods. In green, turquoise, aubergine and white enamels on a yellow ground.
 

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 89, page 102

 
notes:

1. some restoration to one section of the lip and to some of the enamels
2. precursor of fahua ware