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303 A BLUE AND WHITE ⌲Ꮴ⛆ 䱿㟞̶సϧ➖ᩲθృ⨣
‘ROMANCE OF THE
THREE KINGDOMS’
BOTTLE VASE

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period ҳ⎽
䗱꧉㛔 Berwald Oriental Art ⧍侚2001䎃
the slender pear-shaped body rising from a
spreading foot to an everted rim, painted in
bright cobalt with an episode from Romance
of the Three Kingdoms between speckled
bands at the foot and rim, at the center
Zhao Yun, one of the ! ve top generals in
the Shu army, seated upon a dappled horse
bounding through a mountainous landscape,
two bannermen leading the way and a third
following on foot, the base glazed white, coll.
no. 323
Height 8⅞ in., 20 cm
PROVENANCE
Berwald Oriental Art, London, 2001.
The shape of the vessel, inspired by a Song
dynasty form, the free painterly style, and the
bands of cobalt blobs indicate that the vase
was produced early in the Kangxi reign. A blue
and white vase of this shape with a scene of a
boy and oxen in a landscape, ascribed to the
early Kangxi period, is illustrated in Transitional
Wares and their Forerunners, The Oriental
Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Museum of Art, 1981, cat. no. 94.
$ 15,000-25,000

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