RON BROWNSON ESTATE AUCTION 3
Tuesday, 11 - Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Stoneware Ng ka py bottle China,

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Realised: $20 plus premium

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Lot Details

Guangdong, China, c.1875. Pyriform shaped bottle of buff coloured clay. Flat, indented base, integral foot ring, globular body, short neck with a narrow mouth and an everted rim. Excluding the resting surface, covered in a thin brown glaze; the upper body and interior with a thick brown/black glaze. Chip to rim. H.17cm. Dia.12.5cm Origin/Date: Asia Central Asia, c.1866 c.1900 Cat. Note/Condition/Ref.: Fergus Clunie, Yale i Viti = Shades of Viti (Suva Fiji Museum, 1986), pp. 25. Chips to rim and exterior foot. Good. For a discussion of Ng ka py bottles found in New Zealand archaeological sites see: Neville A Ritchie, Archaeology and history of the Chinese in southern New Zealand during the nineteenth century: a study of acculturation, adaptation, and change (Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Otago, 1986), pp. 232-234. For a discussion of possible sites of production of Ng ka py bottles see: Philip P Choy, 'Interpreting "Overseas Chinese" ceramics found on historical sites: manufacture, marks, classification, and social use', SHA Research Resource (March 2014), pp. 15-16. https//ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/6404, https//sha.org/assets/documents/Choy%20%20pottery%20research%20%20final%20version.pdf