Lot Details
Lot 86
Vietnamese Blue and White Reticulated Ewer
16th Century, probably from the Chu Dau kilns, Hai Duong Province
Of yuhuchunping form with ear-form handle and elongated spout connected by cloud-straps to the body, the ewer is set on either side with a reticulated panel of a cockatoo amidst foliage, the foot is painted with wide lappets, the neck with leaf darts and the body with clusters of foliage. Height 9 1/8 inches (23.2 cm).
Property of the Nguyen Family Collection
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Sold for $700 (includes buyer's premium)
Additional Notes & Condition Report
While cockatoos, long a popular subject in Chinese ceramics and metalwork, became extinct in southern China by the 15th century, Annamese missions to China often brought them as tribute. Wares such as this example, bearing some Islamic motifs in its decoration and form, were produced, because of the complications of construction, in small quantities in Northern Vietnam and exported from the ports of Van Don (near Haiphong) or Hoi An, south of HuÚ. It was from the ocean site of the foundering of one of these shipments that this example was retrieved.
Restoration to handle and mouth; surface 'softened' by exposure to sea water.
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Restoration to handle and mouth; surface 'softened' by exposure to sea water.
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