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A fine and large blue and white triple-gourd vase
Kangxi
The largest globular lowest bulb painted in bright cobalt blue with three
roundels of chrysanthemum blossoms, alternating with heavy peony
flowerheads, encircled by stylised dragons striding amidst the leafy
meanders, surmounted by the central bulb similarly painted and all
reserved on a blue ground, rising to the smallest bulb depicted with
three cartouches of floral sprays beneath the waisted neck and flared
rim.
72cm (28 3/8in) high

£15,000 - 25,000 CNY150,000 - 250,000
HK$190,000 - 310,000

清康熙 青花穿花龍紋葫蘆瓶

Provenance 來源: Eugene O. Perkins Collection
Sold at Christie’s New York, 2 June 1989, lot 49

Ralph M. Chait Galleries Ltd., New York

Roy Davids Collection, no.56, acquired on 18 October 2011

This handsome piece is an impressive feat of potting, showing great
control of the clay to produce such a tall and complex form. For a
related blue and white triple-gourd vase dated to the 18th century in
the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and incised with the mark N.363, see
C.J.A.Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam: The Ming and Qing Dynasties, London, 1997, p.102,
no.93.

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