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A FINE AND RARE IRON-RED AND
GILT-DECORATED ‘CARP’ ROULEAU
VASE

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

The cylindrical body is deftly painted in iron red
and black enamels with four large finely detailed
carp reserved on a powder-blue ground, amongst
further gilt smaller carp and aquatic plants, the
shoulder with four flowerheads framed in quatrefoil
panels reserved on a diaper border, the neck with
two striding three-clawed dragons in gilt, all framed
by formal borders. The base is decorated with an
underglaze-blue lingzhi head.
18 Ω in. (47 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

HK$400,000-600,000 US$52,000-78,000

PROVENANCE

A Japanese private collection, formed over the last
two decades

Compare to similarly decorated vases including one in
the Baur Collection, illustrated by John Ayers, Chinese
Ceramics in the Baur Collection, volume 2, Geneva,
1999, pl. 131; another illustrated by John Ayers in Far
Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
Tokyo, 1990, pl. 193; one in the Musée Guimet is
illustrated by J.J. Marquet de Vasselot and M.J. Ballot,
Musée du Louvre: La Ceramique Chinoise-II, Paris, 1922,
pl. 26.

清康熙 灑藍地礬紅描金魚藻龍紋棒槌瓶
來源
日本私人收藏，成立於1990年代

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