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

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Stoneware Ng ka py bottle - China,

Realised: $20 plus premium

Lot Details

Guangdong, China, 20thC. Ng ka py bottle (), stoneware, 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 in thick brown lustre glaze. H.16cm. Dia.12cm Cat. Note/Ref.: The relatively sophisticated lustre glaze suggests a date of manufacture after Chinese activity on New Zealand goldfields. Ng ka py is still commercially available in similar stoneware 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. Excellent. https//sha.org/assets/documents/Choy%20%20pottery%20research%20%20final%20version.pdf

Stoneware Ng ka py bottle - China, Image 1++
Stoneware Ng ka py bottle - China, Image 1++