Lot 139
CHINESE SANCAI-GLAZED 'MONKEY' EWER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Auction: 07 November 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
清 素三彩壽祿猴壺
in the shape of a monkey riding a recumbent deer, its right hand holding a peach, the left palm on the deer's rear forming a handle, the monkey glazed in yellow with body detailed in carvings, the deer in a dark green glaze variegated with brown patches and a hint of yellow streaks
Dimensions
17.5cm wide
Provenance
From the estate of the late Peter D. R. Powell (1940-2025); Set up by Peter Powell in Edinburgh in the early 1980s, The Thrie Estaits in Dundas Street was a treasure trove of the eclectic, the beautiful and the quirky. It was hard to find a shop like it, and for nearly forty years, it was the go-to for extraordinary works of art;
Previously in a private Taiwanese collection.
彼得．鮑威爾（Peter D. R. Powell, 1940–2025）遺產；由彼得．鮑威爾於1980年代初在愛丁堡創立的The Thrie Estaits，是一座充滿奇趣與美感的骨董店。運營四十年間，它一直是尋覓非凡藝術品的必訪之地；
前臺灣私人收藏。
Footnote
[drinking vessel]