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A blue and white ‘G’-marked globular bottle vase A small blue and white pear-shaped vase
Kangxi Kangxi
Brightly painted in various tones of cobalt blue with an overall pattern Elegant potted with a slightly flaring rim, painted in vibrant tones
of lotus blossoms amidst meandering leafy foliage, the shoulder with a of underglaze-blue with ‘the Love Chase’ scene depicting three
blue wash band decorated with lotus and pomegranate sprigs. equestrians approaching the bridge, encircled by an attendant and a
20.3cm (8in) high boatman in a sampan, all amid a mountainous riverscape enclosing a
pavilion, pine trees and jagged rocks, wood stand.
£4,000 - 7,000 15.5cm (6 1/8in) high (2).
HK$50,000 - 88,000
CNY40,000 - 69,000
清康熙 青花纏枝蓮紋天球瓶 £3,000 - 5,000 CNY30,000 - 50,000
HK$38,000 - 63,000
Provenance 來源: Saint Louis Art Museum collection, Missouri, 清康熙 青花人物故事圖瓶
inventory no. 1103A:40
Sotheby’s New York, 29 March 2006, lot 434 Provenance 來源: a Japanese private collection
S.Marchant & Son Ltd., London (label) S.Marchant and Son Ltd., London
Roy Davids Collection, no.55, purchased on 1 July 2006 Roy Davids Collection, no.120, acquired on 19 June 2009
The shape of the present lot is derived from Western glass bottles, and Exhibited 展出: S.Marchant and Son Ltd., Grosvenor House Art and
it would probably have been part of a set intended for wine or spirits. Antiques Fair, London, 2009, no.96
For a bottle vase of similar shape and style, described as early 18th
century, see C.J.A.Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: The Ming and Qing Dynasties, London,
1997, no.298. Another similar pair from the collection of Ira and Nancy
Koger sold at Sotheby’s New York, 27 November 1990, lot 15.
Although the ‘G’ mark has not been traced to a particular person,
it probably refers to a European gentleman or trader or possibly
one of the Dutch East India companies that ordered the vase; see
the discussion by R.L.Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China,
London, 1925, p.143.
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