
A BLUE AND WHITE PEACH-SHAPED 'CADOGAN' WINE EWER Shunzhi Naturalistically moulded as a ripe peach supported on a spreading foot, applied with a loop handle and a curved spout attached to curling tendrils, each side of the body with a peach-shaped panel, one painted with an elegant lady with long sleeves dancing within a balustraded garden, the other inscribed with a poem in caoshu calligraphy, with an opening on the base and an aperture on the inside of the handle. 15cm (5 7/8in) high. Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 清順治 青花人物詩文桃式酒壺 Provenance: acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, London, on 1 February 2016 (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, p.47 來源:獲得于倫敦古董商R & G McPherson Antiques,2016年2月1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47頁 The inscription reads: 一片碧雲藏裏面,幾多玉露下銅葉 Which might be translated as: Amid hidden layers of blue-green clouds; countless drops of jade-like dew descend on 'copper' leaves. Compare with a blue and white wine ewer of similar peach shape, Chongzhen, illustrated by T.Canepa and K.Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate: The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p.136, Pl.116. See a related blue and white Cadogan wine ewer, mid-17th century, from the 'Hatcher Cargo', which was sold at Christie's New York, 21 January 2016, lot 195. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing































