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Kangxi Porcelain – A Private Collection
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 119

A COPPE R-RED AND UNDERGLAZE -BLUE MALLET VASE, KANGXI MARK AND PE RIOD
Estimate: 50,000 - 70,000 USD

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE MALLET VASE
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD
清康熙 青花釉裏紅團花鋸齒紋搖鈴尊 《大清康熙年製》款

the elegant baluster-form body sweeping to high rounded shoulders, with a narrow raised fillet encircling the tall waisted neck, the
lower body painted in deep copper-red tones with four evenly spaced medallions, each centering a whorl surrounded by two bands
of S-scrolls and thin radiating petals, all above a row of pointed lappets enclosing pairs of C-scrolls and rising from a herringbone
border divided by three underglaze-blue lines, the base inscribed with a six-character mark in underglaze blue in three columns

Height 9 in., 22.9 cm

Catalogue Note
This elegant vase denotes the Kangxi Emperor's devotion to Tibetan Buddhism and the innovation of original designs on porcelain
during his reign: the swirling three-section gakyil ('Wheel of Joy') that is framed by multiple bands is traditionally the central
element of the 'Wheel of the Dharma' dharmachakra, which holds an important place in the Buddhist doctrine.

Vases of this type are held in important private and museum collections worldwide; see one illustrated in Kangxi Wares from the
Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 7; another published in Porcelains from the Tianjin Municipal Museum, Hong
Kong, 1993, pl. 130; and a third vase in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated together with an underglaze-blue
version in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 119. A similar vase, in the Meiyintang collection,
is published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 4, part II, London, 2010, pl. 1706 where Krahl

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