Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
Property from the Collection of Dr. Maurice Berger
A Guan-type waterpot, Yuan - Ming dynasty | 元至明 官窰式三足水盂
Auction Closed
September 20, 05:51 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Guan-type waterpot
Yuan - Ming dynasty
元至明 官窰式三足水盂
Height 2⅝ in., 6.7 cm
Tonying & Company, New York.
Collection of Cyrus (1903-1999) and Mildred (1903-1997) Churchill.
The Concordia House Collection.
Offered at Sotheby's New York, 19th March 2007, lot 134.
通運公司，紐約
Cyrus (1903-1999) 及 Mildred (1903-1997) Churchill 伉儷收藏
雍穆堂收藏
上拍於紐約蘇富比2007年3月19日，編號134
This charming desk object with its unctuous crackle glaze references the Guan glaze so admired in the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). It would have been used together with a tubular dropper to be dipped in the water, its opening closed with a finger to draw water out, and released onto the ink stone as necessary. For a Song dynasty example preserved with its tubular droppers, see a Guan bud-form waterpot from the Eli Lilly Collection in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, included in the exhibition Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1983, fig. 6. Compare also a related Guan-type Longquan waterpot with a stopper, sold in these rooms, 17th March 2015, lot 183.