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Blue and white ‘phoenix-tail’ vases moulded with a floral ground and 201
dating to the Kangxi period are rare. Other shapes with similar dense A BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER VASE
peony grounds include beaker vases. Compare with a blue and white Chenghua six-character mark, Kangxi
gu vase, Kangxi, decorated with shaped panels of landscape and The body raising on an elegantly-tapering foot, painted in vivid shades
domestic scenes, which sold at Sotheby’s London, 12 July 2006, of cobalt blue with an audience scene, depicting a scholar holding a
lot 630. A blue and white beaker vase, Kangxi, decorated with panels hu tablet arriving at a pavilion, received by a dignitary unfolding and
reserved on a moulded celadon ground sold at Christie’s New York, announcing the Imperial edict, accompanied by martial generals and
19 September 2006, lot 286. anticipated by further scholar-officials in the fenced garden beside
pitted Taihu rocks, all framed within cloud scrolls, the waisted neck
with two leafy sprigs issuing prunus and lily blossoms.
48.2cm (19in) high

£12,000 - 15,000
CNY100,000 - 130,000

清康熙 青花高士領旨圖觀音尊
青花「大明成化年製」楷書仿款

Compare with a similarly-shaped blue and white vase, painted with
scholars engaging in leisurely pursuits, which sold at Sotheby’s
London, 5 November 2014, lot 113.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot FINE CHINESE ART | 115
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.