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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
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AN INCISED LAVENDER-GLAZED ‘PEONY’ VASE A related incised lavender-glazed vase and cover (38.7 cm.) from the
17TH CENTURY Collection of John and Julia Curtis sold at Christie’s New York, 16 March
The vase is carved with a dense pattern of peony sprays with leafy foliage, 2015, lot 3721. According to Sir Michael Butler, the lavender blue glaze was
below a key-fret border to the shoulder and a band of further foral sprays, all not used before the Shunzhi period, and was rare even at that time and into
covered in a pale blue glaze. The base is left unglazed. the early Kangxi period. (Michael Butler, Julia B. Curtis and Stephen Little,
11¡ in. (29 cm.) high Shunzhi Porcelain: Treasures from an Unknown Reign, 1644-1661, Alexandria,
£8,000-12,000 $11,000-16,000 VA, 2002, p. 156). A smaller lavender glaze jar (18 cm high) in the Butler
€9,000-13,000 Family Collection is illustrated ibid., p. 157, no. 41.

PROVENANCE 清十七世紀 天藍釉刻牧丹紋瓶
Private European collection, acquired prior to 1990.
來源: 歐洲私人珍藏，1990年前購入

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