A unique and highly important moulded blue and white barbed 'fish' charger, Yuan dynasty | 元 青花魚藻凸花牡丹菱口大盤
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A unique and highly important moulded blue and white barbed 'fishꦰ' charger,
Yuan dynasty
元 青花魚藻凸花牡丹菱口大盤
fluently painted in cobalt of an inky-blue tone, the central well brilliantly adorned with a single carp swimming amidst swirling eelgrass and other aquatic plants, enclosed within a broad band on the cavetto accentuated by eight peony blooms depicted in full-frontal and profile views, borne on a continuous foliate branch with leaves naturalistically detailed with veins, all outlined and set against a background of concentric rings resembling cresting waves, the everted barbed rim uniquely moulded with a continuous lingzhi scroll on a contrasting solid blue ground, the exterior decorated with a frieze enclosꦯing a lotus scroll, the unglazeღd base burnt orange
47.8 cm
Sothe🥃by’s New York, 9th September 1987, lot 256 and cover.
Eskenazi Ltd, London.
Collection of T.T🔴. Tsui, Jingguant♈ang Collection, Hong Kong.
Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th April 2002, lot 607.
紐約蘇富比1987年9月9日，編號256及封面
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦
徐展堂（靜觀堂）收藏，香港
香港佳士得2002年4月29日，編號607
Sotheby’s Art at Auction 1987-1988, London, 1988, p. 258.
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Giuseppe Eskenazi in collaboration with Hajni Elias, A Dealer’s Hand. The Chinese Art World Through the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi, London, 2012; Chinese version, Shanghai, 2015, reprint, 2017, fig. 78.
Regina Krahl, Early Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain. The Mingzhitang Collection of Sir Joseph Hotung, Hong Kong, 2022, no. 9.
《Sotheby’s Art at🍸 Auction 1987-1988》，倫敦，1988年，頁258
《海內外徐展堂中國藝術館藏品選萃》，香港，1996年，圖版48
John Carswe✅ll，《Blue & White. Chinese Por💫celain Around the World》，倫敦，2000年，圖版5
埃斯卡納齊，薛好佩整理，《中國藝術品經眼錄：埃斯卡納齊的回憶》，倫敦，201♛2年，中譯版，上海，2015年，2017年再版，圖78
康蕊ꦅ君，《Early Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain. The Mingzhitang Collection of Sir Joseph Hotung》，香港，2022年，編號9
The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1990s.
徐氏藝術館，香港，1990年代