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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER JARS AND COVERS A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER VASES, GU
Kangxi Chenghua six-character marks, Kangxi
Both painted around the exterior with circular panels of an elegant Both with channelled rims and deftly painted around the exteriors in
lady gazing out of her window, double-gourd panels of antiquities and vibrant hues of cobalt-blue with various scenes, the upper register of one
archaic bronze vessels, all reserved on a honeycomb-pattern ground, vase with armed soldiers, the middle section with gentleman drinking
the domed cover with lotus-bud finials. around a board game, the lower register with elegant ladies in a garden
61cm (24in) high (4). and pavilion playing chess, the other vase decorated on the upper register
with court musicians accompanying a court lady and phoenix, the middle
£12,000 - 16,000 register with ladies engaged in the four scholarly arts, the lower register
CNY100,000 - 140,000 with scholars and attendants amidst gnarled pine trees.
The largest 46cm (18 1/8in) high. (2).
清康熙 青花錦地開光博古圖蓋罐 一對
£9,000 - 12,000
Provenance: an Italian private collection CNY78,000 - 100,000

來源：意大利私人收藏 清康熙 青花刀馬人物圖花觚 一對
青花「大明成化年製」楷書仿款

Provenance: an Italian private collection

來源：意大利私人收藏

During the Kangxi period it was fashionable to depict warriors and
scenes from popular novels such as The Romance of the Three
Kingdoms, or Outlaws of the Marsh. The majority of the images on
porcelain are derived from woodblock illustrations. Compare with a
related motif on a vase, Kangxi, illustrated in Seventeenth Century
Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler
Collections, Shanghai, 2005, pp.270-271, no.97.

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