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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F.
BROWN
1591
A FINELY DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE
BALUSTER VASE
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1650
The vase is decorated in bright shades of underglaze cobalt
blue with vases containing blossoming flowers, 'antiques',
and a fan-shaped panel on one side containing figures in a
riverscape, beneath leafy flower blossoms on the neck and
all between incised borders.
16Ω in. (41.9 cm.) high

$30,000-50,000
PROVENANCE:
Leonard Gow (1824-1910) Collection, Scotland.
Max Robertson (1915-2009) Collection, London.
Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 18 June 1968, lot 54.
Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 3 April 1979, no. 173.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio,
Texas.
LITERATURE:
Sir Harry Garner, Oriental Blue and White, London, 1977, col.
pl. F.

The elegant, high-shouldered form of the present
vase diverts slightly from the standard rolwagen of the
seventeenth century. The finely painted ‘antiques’, including
a scroll painting, ancient bronze vessels and porcelains,
reflect the taste of the literati at the time. J. Harrison-Hall,
in Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British
Museum, London, 2000, p. 389, notes that collecting
antiques and paintings in late-Ming-period China was a
pre-requisite for cultured status. Antiques as decorative
motifs became popular on seventeenth-century blue and
white wares, reflecting the importance of the objects in the
everyday-life of the cultured elite. For a rolwagen decorated
with ‘antiques’ and flowers in The British Museum, see
ibid., p. 388, no. 87. See, also, an ovoid jar and cover
decorated with Scholarly objects and flowers, Chongzhen
period (1628-1644), in the Shanghai Musuem, illustrated
in M. Butler, Q. Wang, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen
Porcelain: From the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Family
Collections, London, 2006, no. 13.

過渡期 1650年前後 青花博古圖瓶

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F.
BROWN
1592
A LARGE FINELY DECORATED FAMILLE ROSE
DISH
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)
The center is decorated with two mandarin ducks,
one grasping a fish in its beak, beneath peony and
chrysanthemum, within a border of shaped panels enclosing
legendary figures reserved on a diaper border.
21º in. (54.2 cm.) diam.
$30,000-50,000

清雍正 粉彩鴛鴦花卉圖大盤
1591