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Description
A BLUE AND WHITE ‘LOTUS’ JAR, GUAN, MING DYNASTY
China, circa 1500. The baluster body rising from a slightly tapering foot to a short waisted neck with a lipped rim, boldly painted with a continuous wide band of lotus scrolls, the shoulder with another scrolling lotus band below a band of ruyi-heads, the neck with a band of ruyi-heads with scrolling ribbons, a large band of stiff floral lappets at the tapering foot, the base left unglazed.
Provenance: Holzapfel collection, Geneva, Switzerland. The greater part of the Holzapfel Oriental Ceramics collection was formed in England and Ireland in the late 1950s and 1960s. After the death of Mr. Holzapfel, most of his pieces went to his children, ten in all. Two of Mr. Holzapfel’s eldest sons then started their own collections in the early 1970s, both by adding significantly to their shares of the inheritance. Collecting was eventually continued by one of Mr. Holzapfel’s grandsons, who lives in Switzerland and is a member of the Oriental Ceramic Society. This lot was acquired by the grandfather of Mr. Holzapfel before 1970 and has been in the Holzapfel family ever since.
Condition: Old wear and firing flaws, including glaze recesses, pitting, and dark spots, the neck and rim with old kintsugi repairs and associated cracks overall.
Weight: 6,436 g
Dimensions: Height 31 cm
The present jar belongs to a group of early to mid-sixteenth century vessels, which were clearly inspired by earlier Yuan Dynasty jars.
Literature comparison: Compare a similar Ming dynasty jar of the same size and shape, similarly painted with a large lotus scroll around the body and lotus lappets at the foot, in the Topkapi Saray Collection, illustrated by R.Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul. A Complete Catalogue II. Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains, London, 1986, p.593, fig.825.
Auction result comparison: Compare with a closely related Ming guan jar at Bonhams London in Fine Chinese Art on 12 May 2011, lot 301, sold for GBP 84,000.
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明代青花蓮紋理罐
中國，約1500年。罐直口，短頸，溜肩，鼓腹，淺圈足，外壁以青花為飾，自上而下用青花三弦線分隔成五個紋樣帶。從上而下可見纏枝紋、如意紋、纏枝花卉、大型纏枝蓮花與蟬紋。底足未上釉。
來源：瑞士日內瓦Holzapfel收藏。 Holzapfel 東方陶瓷收藏的大部分藏品是在1950年至1960年代在英國和愛爾蘭成立的。Holzapfel先生去世後，他的大部分藏品都交給了他的十個孩子。Holzapfel先生年長的兩個孩子隨後於1970年代初開始了自己的收藏，都擴大了從遺產得到的收藏。Holzapfel先生的孫子之一他目前居住在瑞士，是東方陶瓷協會的成員，他最終延續了收藏工作。此拍品是1970年以前由Holzapfel先生的祖父購得的，此後一直存在於Holzapfel家族中。
圖片: Holzapfel老先生
品相：舊磨損和燒製瑕疵，包括釉面凹痕，黑斑。頸部和罐口有舊時金繼修補工藝，整體有修補処延伸的裂紋。
重量：6,436 克
尺寸：高31 厘米
拍賣結果比較：一件相近的明代罐見倫敦邦瀚斯Fine Chinese Art 拍場2011年5月12日 lot 301, 售價 GBP 84,000.