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                                                                              A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'ROMANCE
                                                                              OF THE WESTERN CHAMBER' SQUARE
                                                                              VASE
                                                                              Kangxi six-character mark and of the period
                                                                              Heavily potted with four tapering sides
                                                                              surmounted by a waisted cylindrical neck
                                                                              with flaring mouth-rim, the body painted in
                                                                              bold tones of cobalt-blue with a scene of a
                                                                              gentleman with a queue holding a fly-whisk
                                                                              and seated before a dignitary in front of a
                                                                              screen, another side with a scholar and monk
                                                                              emerging from a pavilion with two ladies
                                                                              gazing at them, another side with mounted
                                                                              soldiers charging towards each other, the
                                                                              fourth side with a lady peering out from the
                                                                              window of a tall pavilion, gazing at a scholar
                                                                              and boy-attendant carying a guqin.
                                                                              49.8cm (19 1/2in) high.

                                                                              £30,000 - 40,000
                                                                              CNY240,000 - 320,000
                                                                              清康熙 青花「西廂記」方瓶

                                                                              Provenance:
                                                                              A Bavaria, Germany private collection,
                                                                              by repute
                                                                              Sotheby's London, 15 May 2007, lot 68

                                                                              來源:
                                                                              德國巴伐利亞私人收藏(擬)
                                                                              蘇富比倫敦,2007年5月15日,拍品68














































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