Lot 377

WUCAI 'FLOWER' JAR
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY





Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 3 November 2023 from 09:00 GMT
Description
過渡期 五彩開光花卉紋罐
the body painted with large red peony and yellow chrysanthemum flowers in three interlocking foliate cartouches, all below a band of flowers around the mouth
Dimensions
14.7cm high
Provenance
Provenance: Private Scottish collection, Paxton House. From the collection of H.W. Robertson, Taipan for Butterfield & Swire in Shanghai then Hong Kong 1906-1912, whose son married the heiress to Paxton House in Berwickshire; thence by descent.
Paxton House is situated on the banks of the River Tweed, near Berwick-upon-Tweed. Designed by John and James Adam in 1758, it is perhaps the finest example of an eighteenth-century Palladian country house in Britain and contains a pre-eminent collection of Chippendale furniture. In 1811, the Edinburgh architect Robert Reid added the largest purpose-built picture gallery in a Scottish country house.




