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Chinese porcelain puzzle jug after a Dutch Delft prototype, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue (qinghua), Kangxi reign.

Stock Number: 3898

Chinese export porcelain puzzle jug after a Dutch Delft prototype, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue (qinghua) with a domestic garden scene with ladies, c. 1710, Kangxi reign, Qing dynasty, h. 20 cm, 8 in. 1.13195ab () £18,000. US13/14-BEI/HK14-US15/16-BADA19-US19/20-NEWSLW7/21-

Illustrated: 100 Years of Chinese Export Porcelain, by A. Varela Santos, 2014/2015, cat. 28.

Literature:

Chinese Export Porcelain, edited
by E. Gordon, 1977, essay Crosscurrents in China Trade Porcelain by C. le Corbeiller, p. 52, fig. 2, for an identical jug at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;

L’Odyssée de la Porcelaine Chinoise, exhibition catalogue, exhibition catalogue, Paris 2003, p.148 for a similar piece;

China Trade Porcelain, A Study in Double Reflections, by C. le Corbeiller, China Institute in America 1973, p. 21, cat. 6 for a similar jug;

• Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande, by D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, fig. 105 for a similar jug;

Interaction in Ceramics: Oriental Porcelain and Delftware, by Dr C.J.A. Jörg, 1984 Hong Kong, p. 78, cat. 36 for a similar jug.

The puzzle jug is a Dutch order and it follows closely a Delft prototype.

中國外銷瓷青花庭院仕女圖謎團水壺, 仿荷蘭代夫特陶器器型, 約 1710年,清康熙, 高20 釐米, 8 英吋。

插图: 《百年中国外销瓷》 阿.瓦瑞拉.桑托斯, 2014/2015, 目录 28。

參考文獻:

• 《中國外銷瓷》一書中, 編輯E. Gordon, 1977年出版,論文題目《中國貿易瓷的逆流》, 作者 C. le Corbeiller, 參考第52頁, 圖4所示紐約大都會博物館所藏一隻完全相同的水壺;

• 《中國瓷器的奧德賽》, 法國展銷會的目錄, 參見第148頁一近器;

•《中國外銷瓷》,作者D.F.L. Scheurleer,見圖115一件相似燭臺;

•《Jay Dorf收藏中國外銷瓷》,1966年10月17日佳士得拍賣圖錄,見一對施不透明釉近似器。

◆ 該謎團水壺為荷蘭人定制, 它忠實模仿了荷蘭代夫特陶器原型。