A CHINESE AMBER-GLAZED KENDI

Yuan Dynasty, 13th-14th Century

元十三到十四世紀 黃釉軍持

The body resting atop a splayed foot, set with a long tapering spout and rising to a flared neck with protruding rim, decorated with an amber-coloured glaze, the base unglazed,

17.5cm high

Provenance: Property of a French Private Collection formed in Hong Kong during the 1960’s-1980’s; Christie's, 28th July 1980, lot 36 [paper label]

來源：法國私人收藏，1960-1980年代在香港組成；佳士得，1980 年 7 月 28 日，拍品編號 36 [標籤]

c.f. Two comparable kendis are housed in the collection of the British Museum, acc. nos. 2010,3007.39 and 1981,0228.3. Another example is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 1986.344. A comparable kendi is also in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, acc. no. 202.2008.

A comparable kendi, unearthed in the Sinan shipwreck in the Philippines, is illustrated by Kim, Ingyu in 'Yuan Dynasty Chinese Ceramics Excavated from
the Santa Ana Relics of the Philippines', 2012, p.8, no.7.