Unmarked Treasures
Imperial kilns, Jingdezhen, 1796-1820
Height: 6.48 cm
Mouth/lip: 0.54/1.68 cm
Stopper: iron-red, green and gold enamel on partially brown and partially colourless glaze on porcelain, made to imitate a coral stopper surrounded by turquoise beads in a gilt-bronze collar; contemporaneous and of original type
Provenance:
Yamanaka & Co, December 11 1942
Avrina Pugh Collection, no. 92
Sotheby’s, New York, 1 April 2005, lot 464
Robert Kleiner, September 2005
Famille-rose enamels on colourless glaze on porcelain; with a slightly convex lip and recessed flat, oval foot surrounded by a protruding convex, oval foot rim; moulded in relief with a series of auspicious and scholarly objects, including a vase containing a ruyi sceptre and a branch of blossoming prunus, from which a lantern hangs, another vase with a hat-feather, another vase with a spray of millet, and a branch of coral, another hanging lantern, a ding tripod vessel, a pair of interlocking rings, and various scholarly trappings such as a weiqi board and boxes for pieces, scrolls, a qin, water-pot with ladle, fly-whisk, set of books, teapot and incense-tool vase, all set against a formalized ground of leiwen (‘thunder pattern’), the upper lip rim and outer foot rim painted with an iron-red formalized floral design, the interior unglazed
