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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘QILIN AND PHOENIX’
SLEEVE VASE, ROLWAGEN
Circa 1640, with later European mounts
With slightly tapering neck rising to a flaring rim,
finely painted around the exterior with a continuous
scene of scaly mythical qilin in a garden terrace with
large plantain trees, a phoenix flying above, the neck
decorated with various floral sprigs.
51.5cm (20 1/4in) high.

£6,000 - 8,000
CNY53,000 - 70,000

約1640年 青花麒麟鳳凰圖筒瓶
後鑲歐洲鎏金框

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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASES
Kangxi
Each painted around the exterior in vivid hues with
two shaped panels containing floral sprays and
insects, the panels divided by antique vessels,
books and vases, the tall slender necks with further
floral sprays.
Each 22.5cm (8 7/8in) high. (2).

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY26,000 - 44,000

清康熙 青花花卉紋長頸瓶一對

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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘HUNDRED ANTIQUES’
SLEEVE VASE, ROLWAGEN
Chongzhen
Finely painted around the exterior in vibrant tones
of cobalt-blue with a continuous scene of various
93 antique vessels and vases with arranged flowers, all
between incised borders on the foot and shoulders,
the short flaring neck with pendent plantain leaves.
45.7cm (18in) high.

£20,000 - 30,000
CNY180,000 - 260,000

明崇禎 青花博古紋筒瓶

The design known as the ‘hundred antiques’
encapsulates the traditional scholar’s interest in
collecting various objects which symbolised his
refinement and learning. It was fashionable to use
antiques as decoration on porcelain in the late
Ming and early Qing periods. See for example, the
same motif on an ovoid jar and cover, Chongzhen,
illustrated in Seventeenth century Jingdezhen
Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler
Collections: Beauty’s Enchantment, Shanghai, 2005,
pp.90-91, no.13.

Compare with a very similar blue and white sleeve
vase with the same motif of the ‘hundred antiques’
and flowers, Chongzhen, illustrated by J.Harrison-
Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London,
94 2001, p.388, no.12:87.

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