Page 113 - Bonhams Passkon and Philanthropy MET Mjuseum March 2024 Asia Week

56 ¤
TWO UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD VASES Provenance:
Kangxi Robert W. Paterson
The globular lower body painted in a wide band with ascending American Art Association, New York, January 24-25, 1925, no. 503
and descending peony branches and reserve lappets, rimmed by Rogers Fund, 1925
a chevron band beneath the waisted midsection, the smaller upper The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925-present
bulb of the gourd with ogival flowerhead panels and fish-roe ground
below an inverted bell-shaped shoulder with vertical panels dividing 來源：
the wanzi-fret ground, all below the tall spreading cylindrical neck with Robert W. Paterson 舊藏
sprays of pinks and flitting insects. (2) 紐約 American Art Association，1925 年 1 月 24-25 日，拍品編號 503
7 7/8in (20cm) and 7 3/4in (19.7cm) high Rogers 基金，1925 年
大都會藝術博物館，1925 年迄今
$2,000 - 3,000
For a near identical vase (with cut-down neck rim), see Regina Krahl,
清康熙 青花花卉紋葫蘆瓶兩件 John Ayers and Nurdan Erbahar, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi
Saray Museum, Istanbul, A Complete Catalogue, III, Qing Dynasty
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 Porcelains, London, 1986, p.1014, no.2166, where the flower sprays
to the body are identified as gardenia and to the neck, as carnations.

PASSION AND PHILANTHROPY: CHINESE ART FROM THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | 111