A Ming-style blue and white 'peach and loquat' ewer, Seal mark and period of Jiaqing | 清嘉慶 青花花果紋執壺 《大清嘉慶年製》款

Collection of Evelyn Annenberg Hall, New York.

Christie's New York, 29th March 2006, lot 108.

Evelyn Annenberg Hall 收藏，紐約

紐約佳士得2006年3月29日，編號108

The well-known, successful design originated in the Yongle period, when the form of ewer of the Hongwu reign and ultimately the Yuan dynasty was developed and improved and matured to a highly pleasing model. Ewers of this form were produced in the Yongle reign in many different designs, but the peach-and-loquat version appears to have become the most popular, which it also remained in the Qing dynasty.

A reconstructed ewer from the Yongle stratum of the Ming imperial kiln sites was included in the exhibition Jingdezhen Zhushan chutu Yongle guanyao ciqi [Yongle Imperial porcelain excavated at Zhushan, Jingdezhen], Capital Museum, Beijing, 2007, cat. no. 66. For a Jiaqing comparable, see one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, published in Geng Baochang, ed., Gugong Bowuyuan cang gu taoci ciliao xuancui [Selection of ancient ceramic material from the Palace Museum], Beijing, 2005, vol. II, pl. 249.