Lot 44 A pair of Chinese blue and white double-walled 'Linglong' hookah bases

A pair of Chinese blue and white double-walled 'Linglong' hookah bases

Kangxi

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€ 6.000 – € 12.000

H: H. 23,9 cm

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A rare and ingeniously potted pair of underglaze cobalt-blue porcelain hookah bases, each modelled in the form of a huqqa with a bulbous pear-shaped, double-walled body rising to a waisted neck, surmounted by a projecting collar and cup-shaped mouth with a gently flaring rim. The outer wall is divided into two horizontal registers framed by continuous bands of scrolling floral ornament reserved in white against a cobalt-blue ground. Each register is further divided into six openwork honeycomb panels centred by a flowerhead reserved in cobalt blue, revealing the inner body decorated with scattered floral sprays in underglaze cobalt blue. The neck is painted with four vertical panels of flowering plants emerging from rockwork, below a band of stylised flowerheads beneath the rim. The rim and neck edge are highlighted with a brown iron-oxide glaze. The recessed base is pierced with a central aperture exposing the inner chamber; the glazed base terminates in an unglazed foot ring.
一對罕見且製作巧妙的青花水煙壺座。器身呈梨形鼓腹，採雙層胎結構，上接束頸，頸上凸起一周，頂部作杯形口，口沿微外撇。外壁分作上下兩層裝飾帶，均以青花地留白纏枝花卉紋為界。每層再分為六組蜂巢形玲瓏鏤空開光，中央留飾青花花朵；透過鏤孔可見內層器壁，其上以釉下青花疏繪折枝花卉。
頸部設四組豎式開光，內繪山石間生長的花卉，近口處環飾變形花朵紋。口沿及頸部邊緣以褐色鐵釉勾飾。底部內凹，中央開孔，可見內層，底部施釉，圈足露胎。
Reference:
Jorge Welsh Books, 'Linglong', pp. 46-51, no. 05, for an identical pair and pp. 13-25, for a discussion by Teresa Canepa on the 'Linglong' technique.
Provenance:
With a label of Bertrand de Lavergne, Paris.
The Mr. and Mrs. Baert-Devos Collection, Belgium.