Lot 101 A Chinese blue and white 'Birds among Flowering Branches' kendi

A Chinese blue and white 'Birds among Flowering Branches' kendi

Wanli

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€ 6.000 – € 12.000

H: H. 18,2 cm

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Of flattened globular form, the gently raised shoulder rising to a tall cylindrical neck with a galleried rim, and set with a mammiform spout terminating in an upright nozzle. Finely painted in underglaze cobalt blue on either side with a pheasant perched upon rockwork amidst flowering peonies and blossoming prunus, divided by sprays of lingzhi fungus and lotus issuing beneath the spout. The shoulder is encircled by a band of stylised ruyi-heads, repeated on the raised collar surrounding the spout. The mammiform spout is further decorated with ribboned lozenges beneath a band of four ruyi-heads, while the neck is painted with a band of upright lanceolate leaves below the rim.
此壺腹部扁圓，肩部微隆，上接高直筒頸，口部飾凸起圈稜，一側置乳房形流，頂端接直立流口。器身兩面以青花繪錦雞立於洞石之上，四周牡丹盛放、梅花綻枝，流下則繪靈芝與蓮花折枝，將兩組畫面隔開。
肩部環飾一周如意雲頭紋，流部凸起的座圈亦飾相同紋樣。乳房形流上繪綬帶方勝紋，上方環列四組如意雲頭紋，頸部近口沿處飾一周仰蕉葉紋。
Provenance:
A Portuguese collection, 1974.
The Drs. A. M. Sengers Collection, The Netherlands, collection no. 141, acquired from the above in June 1982.
S. Marchant & Son, London, with their label to the base.
The Baert-Devos collection, Belgium. Acquired from the above in 2001 and accompanied by a copy of their original invoice. (see added scans)
Exhibited and published:
Exhibited at the Museum Het Prinsenhof for the loan exhibition 'Schatten uit de Oost of De Kunst van het Verzamelen', at the 42nd Delft Antique Fair in October 1990, 'Eighty Years Chinese Ceramic history in a Dutch Private Porcelain Collection', no. 5.
S. Marchant & Son, London, included in their July 1980 exhibition of 'Chinese Blue and White, Wan Li to K'ang Hsi', and published in the accompanying catalogue, no. 3.
Marchant, London, inclueded in their 2004 exhibition of 'Ming Blue and White Porcelain. The Drs. A. M. Sengers Collection', and published in the accompanying catalogue, pp. 32-33, no. 20.