WINTER EXHIBITION 2008 - Roger Keverne

62 ROGER KEVERNE WINTER 2008
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A stoneware bowl
Ming dynasty, 16th century
Diameter: 6K in, 16.8 cm
the rounded sides rise from a recessed base
to an inverted mouth with a rolled rim. A
thick turquoise glaze covers the inside, and
on the outside a design of a leafy flower
spray in yellow and turquoise is repeated
three times on an aubergine ground. The
stoneware body is revealed on the foot rim,
and the base is glazed aubergine.
Formerly in the collection of Charles Gillot
(1853–1903), and sold at Maître Paul
Chevallier, Paris, 8–13 February 1904,
lot 973.
For similar fahua-type bowls, see Harrison-
Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum,
nos. 13:29–30, p. 424; Hayashiya and
Trubner, Chinese Ceramics from Japanese
Collections: T’ang through Ming Dynasties,
no. 48, p. 91; Medley, The Chinese Potter:
A Practical History of Chinese Ceramics,
fig. 170, also illustrated in Dubosc,
Exhibition of Chinese Art, no. 702;
Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese
Ceramics, pl. 89, p. 144, in the collection
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York; and Wood, Chinese Glazes,
p. 217, in the collection of the Victoria
and Albert Museum.
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A good porcelain vase
18th century
Height: 8B in, 20.7 cm
after an archaic bronze wine vessel (gu),
the cylindrical vase has a swollen waist, a
spreading foot and an everted galleried rim.
The waist is carved with four panels of leafy
peony, separated by vertical bracket flanges,
between bands of upright and pendent
banana leaves. The outside and inside
of the neck are covered with a turquoise
glaze, and a smear of translucent glaze
covers the base.
An identical vase is illustrated in Scott,
Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing
Monochrome Wares in the Percival David
Foundation of Chinese Art, no. A566, pl. IX.