Two blue and white rosewater sprinklers. Kangxi

Two Chinese export porcelain sprinklers on footing, with a spherical body and tall, tapering neck rising from an angular swelling and decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with symmetrically arranged single rosettes, petals and squares in horizontal hands. Marked with artemisia leaf.

COUNTRY : China
TIME: Kangxi (1662-1722), circa 1700
MATERIAL : Porcelain
SIZE : 6.10 in. (15.5 cm)
REFERENCE : D498
STATUS : vendu
Related works .

A rosewater sprinkler of this model was published by Dr. Christiaan Jörg in Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijkmuseum, 2001, p. 108/109, no. 104.

Additional information.

This decoration is unusual for Western assortment and the pieces might have been made for the Islamic market.

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