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A blue, copper-red and celadon-glazed
carved beaker vase, gu
Kangxi
The details carved and highlighted in celadon contrasting with
cobalt-blue and copper-red, the projecting mid-section painted
with two striding chilong dragons divided by a lingzhi fungus
spray, below the tall trumpet neck, decorated with a lone
fisherman on a sampan in a mountainous river landscape with
a pagoda below pine, and above the spreading foot similarly
painted with a fisherman in a sampan.
43.5cm (17 1/8in) high
£25,000 - 35,000
HK$310,000 - 440,000 CNY250,000 - 340,000
清康熙 釉裏三色山水人物圖花觚
Provenance: Prof. Max Esterer, Germany.
Sold in these rooms, 11 November 2010, lot 309
來源：德國Max Esterer教授
倫敦邦瀚斯，2010年11月11日，拍品編號309
Professor Esterer spent 17 years in China between the First
World War and the Second Sino-Japanese War. During his stay
in China he is said to have befriended Chiang Kai Shek, who
on the former’s return to Germany sent him tea to Bavaria for
the next ten years.
For a related underglaze blue, copper-red and celadon-glazed
gu vase, Kangxi mark and of the period, similarly painted
with striding chilong, from the Qing Court Collection, see The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue
and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (III), Hong Kong,
2000, pl.219.

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