Rare linglong wine pourer enameled in black family glazes. C - Lot 123

Rare linglong wine pourer enameled in black family glazes. China. Kangxi period (1662- 1722) Each of the two sides of the wine jug is decorated with three molded and reticulated panels containing prunus, pine and bamboo (Three Friends of Winter), reserved on a black enameled background. The spout is shaped like a fantastic mask in the archaic style. For a very similar jug from the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, see Christie's NYC, Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 15 September 2016, New York, lot 882 (sold for USD 10,000). Other models are illustrated by Thomas V. Litzenburg, Jr. in Chinese Export Porcelain in the Reeves Center Collection at Washington and Lee University (2003, p. 59, no. 42); Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain; One example in the Peabody Essex Museum illustrated in Chinese Export in North America, p. 119, no. 177. Restoration to spout and lid. H. 18 cm