
A CAFÉ-AU-LAIT AND BLUE AND WHITE WINE FUNNEL Kangxi The tapered spout rising to a rounded body covered in a light café-au-lait glaze, below a wide flared rim painted in underglaze-blue with a band of upward lappets below a ruyi-head band. 12cm (4 3/4in) high. Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 清康熙 青花米黃釉漏斗 Provenance: acquired from Guest and Gray, London, on 31 July 2020 (label and collector's notes) Published and Illustrated: M.White, Drinking at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Whites' House collection, vol.2, n.p, 2021, pp.IX,31 來源:獲得于倫敦古董商Guest and Gray,2020年7月31日(標簽和藏家筆記) 著錄:M.White,《Drinking at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Whites' House collection》,第2冊,無出版地,2021年,第IX和31頁 Compare with a similar café-au-lait and blue and white wine funnel, Kangxi, illustrated by B.MacGuire, Four Centuries of Blue and White: The Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain, London, 2023, p.150, no.115, where the author notes that wine funnels are a 'fairly rare occurrence in Chinese export porcelain...[as they] likely proved too fragile when put to use in Europe.' For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing





























