Details
20 cm. (778 in.) high
Provenance
Collection of Sir Charles Hercules Read (1857 – 1929) (as recorded in the RHRP ledger).
With Bluett & Sons, London, December 1928 (as recorded in the RHRP ledger).
The Reginald and Lena Palmer Collection, no. 174 (according to label and as recorded in the RHRP ledger).
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Lot Essay

The lustrous black glaze adorning this ewer became known in Europe during the eighteenth century as noir miroir, or “mirror black.” A pair of mirror-black bottle vases, also bearing traces of gilt decoration, was included in the Exhibition of Chinese Art, Berlin, 12 January–2 April 1929, p. 329, no. 861. Another similar example, with faint remains of gilt designs, is illustrated by J. Ayers in Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, London, 1985, p. 165, no. 137.

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