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A wucai square baluster vase
Circa 1650
Decorated in underglaze blue and red, green,
aubergine and yellow enamels with different scenes
of officials and attendants on each of the four sides,
surmounted by a slightly-waisted neck with three
boys at play amidst rockwork.
37cm (14 1/2in) high
£6,000 - 10,000
HK$75,000 - 130,000
CNY59,000 - 99,000
約1650年 五彩人物故事圖方瓶
Provenance 來源: D & M Freedman Ltd., London
Roy Davids Collection, no.60
It is very unusual to find a square-form vase with
wucai decoration, however another painted with
scenes of Daoist figures, dated 1645-1660, and
with very similar shoulder and neck decoration to
the present lot, is illustrated by C.J.A.Jörg, Chinese
Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam: The Ming and Qing Dynasties, London,
1997, no.78. See also another vase, also with
tasselled objects and boys on the shoulder and
neck, in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum
of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, and illustrated by
S.Little, Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period,
New York, 1983, p.102, no.44, where the author
notes that whilst the shape may have been derived
from earlier Transitional vases based on European
models, the present wucai type was almost was
almost certainly produced for the domestic market.

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