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A BLUE AND WHITE SLEEVE VASE, ROLWAGEN A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE EWER
Circa 1640-50 Chongzhen
With slightly tapering neck rising to a flaring rim, finely painted in Potted with serpentine handle decorated with cloud scrolls and
underglaze blue with floral and fruiting branches scattered around the supported on a short straight foot, the globular body and slender neck
body, including lotus, prunus, peony and loquats, all below a band of painted in underglaze blue with scattered leafy sprigs of lotus, prunus,
stiff leaves to the rim and with incised borders around the shoulder and peony and chrysanthemum, separated by a band of teardrops to the
the foot. 45cm (17 5/8in) high tapering shoulder. 35.6cm (14in) high

£1,500 - 1,800 £2,000 - 3,000
CNY15,000 - 17,000 CNY19,000 - 29,000
HK$18,000 - 21,000 HK$24,000 - 35,000
The present vase is unusual in its very delicate decorative style. The form of the present lot is based on Western metalware models.
Compare a related vase with larger bamboo and floral decoration For a related but smaller blue and white ewer, dated 1635-1644, with
but with the similar small lappets on the neck, in the Musée Guimet figural painting and a long spout, see C.J.A.Jörg, Chinese Ceramics
and dated to 1634, illustrated by Sir M.Butler, M.Medley and S.Little, in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: The Ming and Qing
Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Dynasties, London, 1997, no.290.
Collection, Alexandria, 1990, p.14, figs.1 and 1a. Another related
slender vase also with scattered floral sprays but interspersed with
calligraphy and without lappets on the neck, dated circa 1645-60,
in the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, is illustrated by M.Butler,
J.Curtis, S.Little, Treasures from an Unknown Reign: Shunzhi
Porcelain, Alexandria, 2002, p.46, fig.5.

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