Lot 48: SIX THAI-MARKET BENCHARONG VESSELS PAINTED WITH DEITIES, TOH 19th century

SIX THAI-MARKET BENCHARONG VESSELS PAINTED WITH DEITIES,
TOH

19th century

Comprising a large deep, bowl-form jar and cover; two smaller bowl-form jars and covers; a bowl-form jar (without cover); and two bowls, painted in bright enamels and iron red with
Thepanom figures in triangular scroll cartouches alternating with haloed
Norasingh figures, all set against a deep-blue ground with flame-like
kranok leaf motifs and bordered by narrow bands of circlets and green enamel, the covers similarly decorated and with flat knop finials. (6)


large jar and cover: 8 5/8in (21.9cm) high overall
smaller jars with covers: 4 1/2in (11.4cm) and 3 3/4in (9.5cm) high overall
jar (without cover): 3 1/4in (8.3cm) high
bowls: 7in (17.8cm) and 5 5/8in (14.3cm) diam

A u-shaped hairline crack, chip.

十九世紀 宾乍隆暹羅神祇圖器皿六件



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Theodor Ring, Oslo (formerly Kristiania), Norway

Avery Fund, 1909

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1909-present




來源：

挪威奧斯陸（舊稱克里斯蒂安尼亞）Theodor Ring 舊藏

Avery 基金，1909 年

大都會藝術博物館，1909 年迄今



For examples of a bowl, and a deep bowl and cover of similar type, see Dawn F. Rooney,
Bencharong, Chinese Porcelain for Siam, Bangkok, 2017, p.40, no.2-1 and p.90, Chapter 5 frontispiece (top right). For detailed images of a
Norasingh, a Buddhist deity, part lion and part deer with a human head torso and arms, see
ibid, p.90, no. 4-36; and for a
Thephanom, a frequently depicted minor deity seated in a posture of worship and wearing a collar and waist band of petals and a high crown, see p.95, no.4-45.

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