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A blue and white ‘garlic-mouth’
baluster vase
Kangxi
Well potted, the baluster vase with a tall single
ribbed neck and garlic-shaped mouth, beneath the
rim a band of ruyi heads, the body painted with
a shaped panel with a seated scholar looking out
on a rocky river scene, the reverse with antiques,
including a vase with peacock feathers, an incense
burner, a table screen, a ruyi sceptre, books and
scrolls, the base marked with the character shun.
28cm (11in) high

£8,000 - 12,000
HK$100,000 - 150,000
CNY79,000 - 120,000

清康熙 青花開光山水人物圖蒜頭瓶

Provenance 來源:
Richard Bennett Collection, no.20 (label)
Edgar Ezekiel Gorer, London
Charles E.Russell Collection
Sotheby’s London, 12 July 1960, lot 165
Sydney L.Moss Ltd., London
John Pullan Collection
Spink and Son Ltd., London (label)
A Dutch Collection (by repute)
S.Marchant and Son, London (label)
Roy Davids Collection, no.30, acquired on
24 September 2008

Exhibited 展出: Royal Academy of Art, International
Exhibition of Chinese Art, London, 1935-1936,
no.1791 (with label for no.2832)

Published and illustrated 出版及著錄: R.L.Hobson
The Later Ceramic Wares of China, London 1924,
pl.XXIX
Royal Academy of Art, International Exhibition
of Chinese Art, Catalogue, London, 1935-1936,
pp.150, 169

It is very unusual to find this type of panel decoration
on this shape of vase. A brushpot with related
decoration of landscape and antiquities from
the Kangxi period and another related bowl, the
landscape screen on one side and the antiquities on
the other, are illustrated in Qing Shunzhi Kangxi chao
qinghuaci, Beijing, 2005, nos. 207 and 323. Another
blue and white vase from the Kangxi period with two
panels showing flowers can be found in the Victoria
and Albert Museum, London, museum number
C.886-1910. A vase of related shape, 18th century,
was sold in these rooms on 16 May 2013, lot 44.

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