A blue and white gilt-silver-mounted kendi. Wanli period (1572-1620) - image-1

Lot 195 Dα

A blue and white gilt-silver-mounted kendi. Wanli period (1572-1620)

Auction 1044 - overview Cologne
05.12.2014, 10:00 - China - Porcelain and Ceramics (incl. the Elbrecht Collection)
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 93.000 € (incl. premium)

A blue and white gilt-silver-mounted kendi. Wanli period (1572-1620)

A blue and white gilt-silver-mounted kendi of globular form with tall neck and bulbous spout, decorated to body below a dense border with peony tendrils on the shoulder with six medallions of crane, horse, deer, qilin et al., various borders and patterns around neck and spout . Wanli period (1572-1620)
Height 22.5 cm

萬曆 鑲銀青花军持

Literature

Compare an almost identical kendi in: D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und japanisches Porzellan in europäischen Fassungen, Braunschweig, 1980, p. 192, fig. 41