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A BLUE AND WHITE BRUSH POT, BITONG
Kangxi
Painted on one side of the exterior in vivid shades
of blue with a square panel, enclosing a landscape
scene with four seated scholars in leisure at a
headland beside the river, in front of cliffs and peaked
mountains, the reverse decorated with scholar’s
objects including books and tripod incense burners
around a bottle vase holding peacock feathers.
15.4cm (6 1/8in) high

£2,000 - 3,000
CNY17,000 - 26,000

清康熙 青花山水圖博古紋筆筒

Provenance: John Goldsmith, London
A Hong Kong private collection

來源： 倫敦John Goldsmith先生舊藏
香港私人收藏

196
A BLUE AND WHITE EWER FOR THE ISLAMIC
MARKET
Kangxi
The body painted with two cartouches depicting
a riverscape dotted with pine trees and laminated
rocks, reserved on a white ground scattered with
flower heads and foliage, continuing onto the
‘L’-shaped handle connecting a cup-shaped mouth
above a tapering neck, the spreading foot with a
beaded band below inverted lotus petals.
27cm (10 5/8in) high

£5,000 - 7,000
CNY43,000 - 61,000

清康熙 外銷伊斯蘭青花山水行旅圖執壺

The shape of this ewer derives from metal vessels,
known as aftaba, which were produced in Turkey
and India and used in conjunction with a basin for
hand-washing. Compare a similarly shaped and
decorated ewer, Kangxi, in the Liverpool Museum,
illustrated by R.L.Hobson in Chinese Porcelain and
Wedgwood Pottery with Other Works of Ceramic
Art, London, 1928, no.233.

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A LARGE PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE
BALUSTER VASES AND COVERS
Kangxi
Each finely moulded and painted around the
exterior with three rows of spiralling petal-shaped
lappets containing dense scrolling floral designs of
chrysanthemum, peony and lotus sprays, the cover
similarly painted with lappets encircled by a leiwen
diaper ground and surmounted by a tear-shaped finial.
Each 56cm (22in) high. (4).

£10,000 - 15,000
CNY86,000 - 130,000

清康熙 青花纏枝花卉紋蓋罐 一對

Intricately decorated with sprays of blossoming lotuses,
peonies and lotuses, the jars underscore powerful
symbolic associations relating to auspicious wishes.
Referred to in Chinese as hehua 荷花 or lian 連, the
lotus is homophonic with ‘harmony’ and ‘continuation’.
Combined with peonies and chrysanthemums, lotus
flowers form a wishful rebus for harmony, longevity, high
rank and perennial longevity.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.