Lot 205
  • 205

A Kangxi gilt-decorated powder-blue ewer, China, with later Ottoman metal mounts, 18th century

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • ceramic with silver
decorated in gilt around the body on a blue ground with floral blossoms and spider webs, the crescent-moon shaped mouth with hinged metal lid topped with red stone, the spout with a long silver mount and dragon-head terminal, both with tughra stamps

Condition

In generally good condition, part of the spout must have been broken, and so the additional Ottoman silver-spout would have been added, some of the painted gold designs on the body rubbed off, underside with a firing crack, as viewed.
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Catalogue Note

This ewer is of a type known to have been made in China for the export market as distinguished by its Persian form. In this case, it is interesting to note that it ended up in the Ottoman Empire as indicated by the metal mounts stamped with tughras. 

A similar example is in the Museum Anastacio Gonçalves in Lisbon (inv. CMAG 330).