A Chinese Transitional blue and white ‘hare gazing at the mo...

Hammer

£1,100

A Chinese Transitional blue and white ‘hare gazing at the moon’ cover, Chongzhen period (1627-1644), 13.2cm diameter, inner flange 12cm diameter, rivet repair

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Provenance - UK private collection, 1920s or earlier, thence by family descent.
This collection of late Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain and bronze vessels has been owned by a single Cotswold family for a number of generations dating back to the 1920s or earlier.
The collection was formerly on display at the family home in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, UK before the house was sold in the 1980s. Some interior photos taken c.1982 show a number of the pieces on display in the family house and an inventory undertaken in 1948 by the local Campden auctioneer and valuer Alfred Bower lists many of the items. Extracts of the 1948 inventory are included where they correspond to the relevant lots in the sale.

The cover has been broken in half and rivet repaired with some old glue around the area some staining to the crack and some chip losses to the inner flange.