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Chinese & Chinese Export Ceramics & Works of Art

A Rare, Late Ming Blue and White Ewer
late 16th/early 17th Century
16 in. (41.2 cm.) high

Of elegant form, the oviform body applied with a slender moulded serpentine handle, and the tall slightly flaring neck with an stylised animal mask radiating moulded feathery leaves below the small spout, all supported on a tall spreading foot, painted in a vibrant rich blue with two rows of slender petal-shaped lappets below bands of dentil, scroll, chain and trefoil patterns, the foot with similar bands above prunus heads on a blue ground, handle restuck, short neck crack

Sale 6510, Chinese & Chinese Export Ceramics & Works of Art: Lot 210 
Sale Date Nov 13, 2001
Estimate: $20,000-30,000