Qing yongzheng Blue and white grain flower watering the flowers

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appreciation: flower watering the exposure there is flow, slender neck, shoulders, drum abdomen, ring foot, neck, shoulder, crank smooth lines. Perfect blue and white decoration, the whole mouth along the deformation cloud grain next week, the neck of the central painting decorative pattern, the period of painting branch lotus and a few lines. Scrolls shoulder shoulder shank convex chrysanthemum petals abdomen painted flowers lines, draw chrysanthemum petals grain close at the foot. Modeling neat, fetal bone nut quality is exquisite, glaze color uniform and fine, enamel sleek. Blue and white book “qing yongzheng year” six foot seal character.
the flower watering the unique shape, the source can be traced back to the Middle East Jin Shuqi. Ming yongle, artisans in porcelain imitated the shape of the Middle East. Until the end of the qing dynasty, the Middle East metal direct impact is less, suspected to Ming flower watering as dibon, imitation similar watering the flowers, or of the handle. Ming yongle imperial kiln site remains, there is a sweet straight white neck watering the flowers, for comparison, see “jingdezhen bead mountain unearthed yongle jintong royal porcelain exhibition”, the Hong Kong museum of art, Hong Kong, in 1989, no. 6 (figure 1). Beijing’s Palace Museum has a hidden yongzheng year similar watering the flowers, there are blue and white with handle, the tea at the end of the glaze and white glaze, examples of variable glaze with handle, see GengBaoChang, “the national Palace Museum hid in the qing dynasty imperial kiln porcelain”, Beijing, 2005, volume 1 (below), engraving, 43, 44, 90, 143, and the Palace Museum hidden treasures collected – color glaze, Hong Kong, 1999, 244 chart.
consult: sotheby’s in New York, the items of lot 2017.9.30, number: Lot0019 qing yongzheng Blue and white chrysanthemum petals, source: high auction company, Stuttgart, on November 12, 2004, no. 1570.
European private collection (pass).
high auction company, Stuttgart, Germany, on November 5, 2010, no. 1239.