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Two blue and white rosewater sprinklers. Kangxi

Two Chinese export porcelain sprinklers on footing, with a spherical body and tall, tapering neck rising from an angular swelling and decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with symmetrically arranged single rosettes, petals and squares in horizontal hands. Marked with artemisia leaf.

Country:
China
Period :
Kangxi (1662-1722), circa 1700
Material:
Porcelain
Dimension:
6.10 in. (15.5 cm)
Reference :
D498
Status:
sold

Related works

A rosewater sprinkler of this model was published by Dr. Christiaan Jörg in Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijkmuseum, 2001, p. 108/109, no. 104.

Notice

This decoration is unusual for Western assortment and the pieces might have been made for the Islamic market.

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