Details

LOT 2254

Chinese Green-Glazed Waterdroppers

YUE KILNS, PROBABLY WESTERN JIN DYNASTY, 265-317 A.D.

4 - 5 1/2 in. (742 grams total, 10-14 cm).

Comprising: a stoneware water dropper in the form of a toad, legs with incised decoration applied to the globular body, the opening flanked by two loop handles, the bottom unglazed; the second one in the exceptional and rare form of a monkey, aperture for filling on the top and nicely crackled green glaze, unglazed bottom. [2, No Reserve]

Provenance

From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990.
Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent.
From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
Asian Art collection of a German Professor.

Literature

See British Museum, no. PDF.289 and 1973,0123.1, and Ashmolean Museum EA1956.229, for similar to the toad-shaped waterdropper; cf. also Regina Krahl, Yuegutang, A Collection of Chinese Ceramics in Berlin, Berlin, 2000, p. 77, no. 57.