6th Nov, 2025 10:00
Chinese Art 中國藝術 - Including the Santos Collection
A Chinese blue and white 'figural' jug, Transitional period, Chongzhen period
過渡期及明崇禎 青花高士圖壺
The pear-shaped body raised on a splayed foot and set with a looping strap handle, painted around the exterior with a continuous figural scene depicting two scholars seated in a woodland clearing as attendants bring them offerings, with bands of flowerheads and leafy sprays
(Quantity:1)
Dimensions: 22cm high
Provenance:A.C. Beeling & Zn, Hofleverancier (Seller to the Dutch Royal House), Leeuwarden [paper label]
John R. Berwald Oriental Ceramics & Works of Art, London, July 1995;
The Marsh Collection;
Bonhams New Bond Street, The Marsh Collection, Art for the Literati, 3 November 2022, lot 32
來源：
荷蘭皇家御用供應商A.C. Beeling & Zn，呂伐登，[標籤]
1995年7月購自倫敦John R. Berwald東方陶瓷與藝術品公司
墨一閒收藏
倫敦邦瀚斯，2022年11月3日
Notes:See a related blue and white jug sold at Rob Michiels Auction, 8th - 9th December 2018, lot 495 [link].
Compare with a related silver-mounted blue and white mustard pot, Shunzhi, from the Butler Family collection, illustrated in 'Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty's Enchantment', Shanghai, 2005, pp.320-321, no.120.
Sold for £3,528
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