A RARE EARLY BLUE AND WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM AND FLOWER PORCELAIN BIRD FEEDER

Estimated Value:

1.200 € - 1.800 €

Result:

841 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, early Ming dynasty
B. 7,2 cm
The globular body molded with chrysanthemum and flower blossoms with two loops at the side for attaching the feeder to the bird cage.
Collection Chu Po Chen, London, sold Nagel, 12.11.1999, lot 2109
Compare the porcelain bird feeder published Eskenazi Ltd, Yuan and Early Ming Blue and White Porcelain, London, 1994, cat. no. 23. Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 4, no. 1658. Relief moulding is extremely rare on Xuande (AD 1426-35) blue-and-white wares, but has been similarly used on a small Xuande water dropper in form of a mandarin duck, in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, which is illustrated in Mingdai Xuande guanyao jinghua tezhan tulu/Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynas ty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, cat. no. 4. A Xuande bird feeder with dragon design, recovered from the waste heaps of the Ming imperial kilns at Jingdezhen, has been included in the exhibition Jingdezhen chutu Ming Xuande guanyao ciqi/Xuande Imperial Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1998, cat. no. 55-3, together with others with different designs in white relief against a blue ground, cat. nos. 55-4 and 55-6. A Chrysanthemum form bird feeder is published at Christie’s N.Y., 30.5.1991, lot 307 - Good condition

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