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A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE 'FROG' KENDI
拍品 418 THE PROPERTY OF A DUTCH NOBLE FAMILY

A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE 'FROG' KENDI

WANLI (1573-1619)

已结束2011年6月22日

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EUR 44,200

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A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE 'FROG' KENDI
WANLI (1573-1619)
The body naturalistically modelled as a recumbent frog with a small cylindrical spout issuing from its mouth, its body painted with flowerheads on a seeded ground below a band of overlapping ruyi-heads around the base of the tall cylindrical neck, decorated with blossoming branches, small frit to spout, glaze crackled, baking flaw to body
19.5 cm. high

专家说明

Kendi's of this unusual form are in several museum collections, including the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, illustrated by Maura Rinaldi, Kraak Porcelain, A Moment in the History of Trade, London, 1989, pl. 234, p. 181, the Ardebil Shrine, Teheran, illustrated by John Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, London, 1981, plate 97, no. 29.465, and two in the Topkapi Saray Museum, illustrated by Krahl & Ayers, Chinese Porcelains in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, 1986, vol. II, nos. 1296 and 1297, pp. 730 and 731.