A Chinese white-glazed moulded 'lotus' water dropper or 'nose-drinking' vessel Qing dynasty,...
A Chinese white-glazed moulded 'lotus' water dropper or 'nose-drinking' vessel
Qing dynasty, Guangxu mark and period
Moulded as a lotus leaf with hollow stem constituting the spout, covered overall in a bluish-white glaze, the reverse of the stem with underglaze-blue six-character mark in a vertical line, fitted box, 18cm long.
The Property of a Lady. Purchased in Hong Kong throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
清光緒 白釉荷花式盃《大清光緒年製》款
女士藏品。二十世紀八十至九十年代間購置於香港。
Vessels such as the present lot are often described as 'nose-drinking cups', as nose drinking was said to be a custom in the South of China, around Yangzhou, during the Northern Song dynasty, as described in Jingdezhen Tao Lu, translated by G. R. Sayer in 1951, entry # 65, page 90.
This custom was revived as a brief amusement during the Kangxi period, when lotus leaf-form vessels of the shape of the present lot were produced in susancai or aubergine glaze, and then again during the Guangxu period, when they were more often made in the shape of a flower head and enamelled pink.
Condition Report:
A short firing crack to the interior and some misfiring to glaze, otherwise generally good.
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A Chinese white-glazed moulded 'lotus' water dropper or 'nose-drinking' vessel
Qing dynasty, Guangxu mark and period
Moulded as a lotus leaf with hollow stem constituting the spout, covered overall in a bluish-white glaze, the reverse of the stem with underglaze-blue six-character mark in a vertical line, fitted box, 18cm long.
The Property of a Lady. Purchased in Hong Kong throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
清光緒 白釉荷花式盃《大清光緒年製》款
女士藏品。二十世紀八十至九十年代間購置於香港。
Vessels such as the present lot are often described as 'nose-drinking cups', as nose drinking was said to be a custom in the South of China, around Yangzhou, during the Northern Song dynasty, as described in Jingdezhen Tao Lu, translated by G. R. Sayer in 1951, entry # 65, page 90.
This custom was revived as a brief amusement during the Kangxi period, when lotus leaf-form vessels of the shape of the present lot were produced in susancai or aubergine glaze, and then again during the Guangxu period, when they were more often made in the shape of a flower head and enamelled pink.
Condition Report:
A short firing crack to the interior and some misfiring to glaze, otherwise generally good.
