China, late Ming to early Qing dynasty. The compressed globular body raised on three short conical feet, the slightly everted rim set with two upright loop handles, the base cast with an apocryphal six-character Xuande mark.
Condition: Fair condition with minor wear, casting flaws, an old piercing to the mark that has been soldered, the scattered gold splash applied with lacquer has mostly worn off. Provenance: From the collection of Georg Weifert (1850-1937). Thence by descent in the same family. Weifert was a Serbo-Austrian industrialist and the first governor of the Federal Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.
Weight: 6.9 kg Dimensions: Diameter 30 cm across the body
Auction result comparison: Compare with a related but much smaller piece sold at Sotheby’s New York in Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art on 16-17 September 2014, lot 582, for USD $9,375 incl. buyer’s premium.