A RARE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE KENDI

15TH/16TH CENTURY

Made for the Islamic market, unusually formed after a leather water bag, the crescent-shaped body raised on four short feet and with a narrow spout to one end, with a tall garlic-mouthed neck to the centre, a pointed finial to each end, decorated with a diamond-shaped cartouche containing dense geometric designs and cloud scrolls, 22.4cm.

Cf. C Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p.36, no.10, where a similar example formerly in the C T M Groenevelt collection is illustrated.