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A VERY RARE BLUE AND 清康熙 青花山水竹石紋方瓶
WHITE SQUARE VASE 三行六字楷書款

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF 來源
THE PERIOD (1662-1722) 藍理捷 紐約，約 2000 年
The tall faceted vase is of square section and decorated to each side
with a different motif in underglaze blue, a sage under a pine tree 展覽
in a mountainous landscape; a pair of butterflies above a mantis 借展明尼阿波利斯美術館，2003-2020 年
perched on a branch above flowering begonia growing from a rock; tall
bamboo branches growing from a rock and a single butterfly above 出版
chrysanthemums and rocks, each framed in double-outlined shaped Robert Jacobsen，葉佩蘭及朱湯生：《清代康雍乾宮窯瓷器：望星
cartouche. The flared shoulder is decorated with lingzhi and sprays of 樓藏瓷》，香港，2004 年，30 至 31 頁，圖版 2 號
orchid, begonia, lotus and mallow, supporting the trumpet-form neck
decorated with bamboo branches. 此瓶青花發色淡雅，四面紋飾主題各異，相當難得。一般較常見繪赤
20 7/8 in. (53 cm.) high 壁賦例子，如上海博物館藏一例，著錄於《上海博物館藏康熙瓷圖
錄》，香港，1998 年，頁 42 及 43；一件 Julia Curtis 著，《Chinese
HK$1,500,000-3,000,000 Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century》，紐約，1995 年，圖 26；
英 國 Butler 家 族 收藏三 件，其 中 之 二 署 康 熙 年款，著 錄 於
US$200,000-380,000 Sir Michael Butler 著「Chinese Porcelain at the Beginning of
Qing」，《Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society》，
1984-1985 年號，倫敦，圖版 38-40 號。
PR O V EN A N C E
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, circa 2000

E XH IB I TE D
On loan to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2003 - 2020

L I T E R A TUR E
Robert Jacobsen, Ye Peilan and Julian Thompson: Imperial Perfection.
The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, Kangxi - Yongzheng -
Qianlong, Hong Kong, 2004, pp 30 , no. 2

It is rare to find a vase of this shape and decoration from the Kangxi
period. Large vases of this shape and style are more commonly found with
landscape illustrations and poetic verses from the ‘Odes to the Red Cliff’.
One example in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain
Wares, Hong Kong, 1998, pp. 42 and 43, pl. 31 and another similar vase is
illustrated by Julia Curtis, Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century,
New York, 1995, p. 84, no. 26. Three further similar examples from the
famous Butler Family Collection, two of which with Kangxi marks, are
illustrated by Sir Michael Butler, ‘Chinese Porcelain at the Beginning of
Qing’, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1984-1985, London,
1986, pls. 38 - 40, and discussed pp. 33-36, where the author suggests
they belong to a group of porcelain produced before the establishment of
the Imperial kilns in Jingdezhen.

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