A rare cylindrical blanc de chine ewer with a square handle. Kangxi
This cylindrical ewer has a rather unusual shape – a square handle and an angular spout. It was probably inspired by a pewter model.
- Country:
- China
- Period :
- Kangxi (166-1722)
- Material:
- Porcelain
- Dimension:
- 5.70 in. (14,5 cm)
- Reference :
- D701
- Status:
- sold
Related works
An identical ewer from the Hickey collection, is in the collections of the Asian Civilisations Museum of Singapour (access number 2000-03332), and published by Rose Kerr and John Ayers in Blanc de Chine: Porcelain from Dehua, Asian Civilisations Museum, 2002, no. 96
For a Blanc de Chine teapot of the same group and with the same form of finial, see Sotheby’s Hong Kong, China / 500 years, 26 may 2021, lot 344.
