ID 1333287
Lot 1390 | A VERY RARE MING BLUE AND WHITE ‘THREE FRIENDS OF WINTER’ EWER
Estimate value
HKD 8 000 000 – 12 000 000
HONGWU PERIOD (1368-1398)
12 ¾ in. (32.5 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
Provenance
Sadao Tsubaki (1896-1957) Collection, a renowned Japanese artist specialising in oil paintings
Marchant & Sons, London, 2011
Literature
Yonezawa City Uesugi Museum, Sadao Tsubaki Retrospective, Yonezawa, 2008, p. 128
Xiling Collection, 2019, pp. 40-41, no. 16
Exhibited
On loan: Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 2012-2017
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Historical era: | Hongwu period, Ming dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Category: | Bowls |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Porcelain |
| Historical era: | Hongwu period, Ming dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Category: | Bowls |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
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