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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION 清康熙 青釉菊瓣瓶
A RARE CELADON-GLAZED 《大清康熙年製》款
‘CHRYSANTHEMUM’ BOTTLE VASE
MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI 來源
the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約，1973年1月1日
Height 8 in., 20.3 cm

PROVENANCE
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 1st January 1973.
Celadon-glazed examples of this type are rare. Compare an
example of this type in the collection of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York (accession no. 14.40.366), and
illustrated in Fong Chow, ‘Chinese Porcelains in the Altman
Collection’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Summer
1961, fig. 20.
Only two or three Kangxi celadon-glazed ‘chrysanthemum’
vases have ever appeared at auction. A Kangxi mark
and period example sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 26th
November 1980, lot 370, and is possibly the same vase that
sold in the same rooms, 25th April 2004, lot 44. Another
with an apocryphal Chenghua mark and formerly in the
collection of J. Insley Blair, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28th
November 2012, lot 2114.

$ 40,000-60,000

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