A Ming Blue and White Kraak Porcelain Winepot
A Ming Blue and White Kraak Porcelain Wine pot, Wanli Period (1573 – 1620). This Kraakware wine pot is a moulded with panels, it is thickly potted and has an S shaped handle. Kraakware wine pots of this type are well known but are among a small group of Kraakware pieces that are closed forms. This wine pot is similar to others of this type, in fact there is not a wide variation of shape or decoration. The six moulded panels that surround the body are painted using the pencil-drawn technique, that is to say it is line-drawing without the normal use of coloured washes that create tone. The fine, briskly executed brushwork depicts flowering chrysanthemum. There is a letter accompanying this wine pot written on headed paper from Ladies’ Carlton Club, it states that the piece was exhibited in the Tudor Exhibition of 1889. See provenance for more details.
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- Condition
- There is a small fine crack to the end of the spout c.9mm. Tiny chips to the spout.
- Size
- Height 19.7 cm (7 3/4 inches)
- Provenance
- A letter accompanying this wine pot written on headed paper from Ladies' Carlton Club (established after the First World War as a social and political centre for Conservative women. It closed in 1958). The letter which is stained and faded states that the piece was exhibited in the Tudor Exhibition of 1889 (a later transcript of the letter was also found inside the wine pot). A Hong Kong private collection, Woolley and Wallis 22nd May 2007, lot 824.
- Stock number
- 25778
- References
- For three Ming Kraak Ware Porcelain wine pots of this type see : Kraak Porcelain, A Moment in the History of Trade (Maura Rinaldi, Bamboo Publishing,1989) Pages 182-183 Shape I.4: wine pots. For another Ming winepot of this type see : Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners (The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1981) Page 82 Item 27. Dated to c.1610 - 1620. A further Ming porcelain wine ewer of this form and design was recovered from the wreck of the Dutch ship Witte Leeuw of 1613. See : The Ceramic Load of the Witte Leeuw 1613 (Edited by C.L van der Pijl-Ketel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1982, ISBN 90-9309-6) pages 128 and 129. The catalogue illustrates a related wine ewer from a Flemish painting in the National Gallery in London dated to c.1620 on page 34. A Ming blue and white porcelain wine pot of this type but with tonal painting of a slightly earlier type dated to 1590-1619 is illustrated in `Ming Blue and White Porcelain, The Drs.A.M. Sengers Collection (S.Marchant & Son, November 2001) page 72, plate 51. A Ming porcelain wine pot of this type is in the Topkapi Museum see : Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, A Complete Catalogue II, Yuan and Ming Porcelains (Regina Krahl, Sotheby`s 1986) page 757 plate 1403.
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References :
For three Ming Kraak Ware Porcelain wine pots of this type see : Kraak Porcelain, A Moment in the History of Trade (Maura Rinaldi, Bamboo Publishing,1989. ISBN 1-870076-09-5) Pages 182-183 Shape I.4: wine pots. For another Ming winepot of this type see : Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners (The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1981) Page 82 Item 27. Dated to c.1610 - 1620. A further Ming porcelain wine ewer of this form and design was recovered from the wreck of the Dutch ship Witte Leeuw of 1613. See : The Ceramic Load of the Witte Leeuw 1613 (Edited by C.L van der Pijl-Ketel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1982, ISBN 90-9309-6) pages 128 and 129. The catalogue illustrates a related wine ewer from a Flemish painting in the National Gallery in London dated to c.1620 on page 34. A Ming blue and white porcelain wine pot of this type but with tonal painting of a slightly earlier type dated to 1590-1619 is illustrated in `Ming Blue and White Porcelain, The Drs.A.M. Sengers Collection (S.Marchant & Son, November 2001) page 72, plate 51. A Ming porcelain wine pot of this type is in the Topkapi Museum see : Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul, A Complete Catalogue II, Yuan and Ming Porcelains (Regina Krahl, Sotheby`s 1986) page 757 plate 1403. A further Kraak porcelain winepot of this type is in the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, see Cobalt Treasures, The Bell Collection of Chinese Blue ans White Porcelain (Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto Canada, Patricia F. Ferguson 2003. ISBN 0-9699386-40) page 54, plate 53. Another Kraakware winepot of this type is in : Kraak Porcelain, The Rise of Global Trade in the Late 16th and Early 17th Century (Teresa Canepa and Christine van der Pijl-Ketel, Jorge Welsh, London 2008. ISBN 0-9550992-9-3) page 264, plate 47.