A WELL-CARVED CELADON EWER WITH GILT-METAL MOUNTS

15TH CENTURY

细节

A WELL-CARVED CELADON EWER WITH GILT-METAL MOUNTS
15th Century
Expertly carved with a continuous frieze of a fenced garden terrace, with a large spreading banana tree sprouting from behind ornamental rocks on each side, all between a band of petal lappets below and bands of ruyi meander, classic scroll and upright leaves rising up the shoulder and neck to the dished mouth, the curved spout attached to the neck by a shaped strut and carved with foliate scroll between keyfret borders, all under a glaze of soft sea-green tone, the inside of the foot similarly glazed, with a gilt-metal mount to the tip of the spout and with a gilt-metal replacement handle
12.3/8in. (31.4cm.) high

拍品专文

Similar ewers also carved with a garden scene with banana plants and rockwork in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, are illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics, vol. I, London, nos. 224 and 225, the first with metal-replaced spout, handle and cover, the second with part of the spout replaced with a metal mount. Compare, also, the intact ewer in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, illustrated in the 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Tokyo, 1981, p. 206, no. 878