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superbly modelled after a Middle Eastern metalwork prototype, with a ?attened spherical body with two domed sides resting on a rectangular footring with rounded corners, surmounted by a waisted neck and small bulb-shaped mouth, ?anked by a pair of gracefully arched handles extending from the upper neck to the narrow sides plainly decorated with two lines, each main side of the body brilliantly painted in rich cobalt blue with linked ruyi heads overlapping elongated petal lappets interspersed with trefoil ?owers, all radiating out from a central wheel-shaped medallion and enclosed within a classic scroll border along the edge, below a foliate scroll band of asters and carnations collaring the lower mouth, the lobed terminals of the handles similarly adorned with ?oral sprays
32.5 cm, 12? in.
PROVENANCE
Collection of Edward T. Chow (1910-80). Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 19th May 1981, lot 408. Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo.
LITERATURE
E.T. Chow and F.S. Drake, ‘Yung-lo and Hsüan-t’e: A Study on Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain’, Journal of Oriental Studies, vol. IV, nos 1-2, 1957-58, reprint, 1961, pp. 108-116, pls VII-VIII. 明永樂 青花輪花紋綬帶耳葫蘆扁壺
來源:
仇焱之(1910-80年)收藏
香港蘇富比1981年5月19日,編號408 出光美術館,東京
出版:
仇焱之及林仰山,〈永樂宣德靑花磁研究〉 ,《東方文化》,卷4,第1-2期,1957-58 年,1961年重印,頁108-116,圖版 VII-VIII