This May, Hotlotz will offer a world class collection of Chinese trade and Southeast Asian ceramics. 

 

Collected by revered hotelier Adrian Zecha over the course of 20 years (between the 1960s and the 1980s), the collection focuses on Chinese trade ceramics and their Southeast Asian counterparts from the 12th - 17th centuries.

 

The collection comprises almost 300 lots, including Chinese export wares from the Song Dynasty through to the late Ming and early Qing period. Yuan and Ming celadon dishes and bowls, to include a well-executed Yuan Dynasty relief moulded dragon dish; and a large twin fish dish; early white and Qingbai glazed examples; Swatow wares; through to late Ming blue and white porcelain wares made for the Southeast Asian and Islamic markets.

It also includes a large section of Vietnamese blue and white polychrome and monochrome wares from the 14th to 16th century, including pear shaped bottle vases; large chargers; boxes; animal form water droppers, bowls and storage jars, including a rare polychrome decorated spherical birds jar from the 15th century.

 

Thai ceramics from Sawankhalok and Si Satchanalai are also represented, including many well decorated and scarce examples such as a very large glazed stoneware model of an elephant and riders.

 

Adrian Zecha is a world renowned hotelier, best known for creating the luxurious and well-loved Aman Resorts. He is a founder-member of the Southeast Asian Ceramics Society and publisher of Asia Magazine and Orientations. Mr. Zecha was born in West Java, Indonesia in 1933.