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A BLUE AND WHITE YENYEN VASE A BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER VASE, GU
Kangxi period Chenghua mark, Kangxi period
Rising on a wide, spreading foot to a bulbous body, with an angled Of archaistic gu form, the splaying foot rising to a convex middle
shoulder, supporting a tall flaring neck, the surface painted in deep section, supporting a wide trumpet mouth, the lower register painted
hues of underglaze blue, the foot with a cloud band below a riparian in deep blue tones with a river landscape, the middle section with
scene of a fisherman among cliffs, reeds and huts, the body painted classic scroll borders and painted with four floral sprays, the neck
with eight highly stylized shou characters, with ruyi and diaper bands decorated with a river landscape, the base with an apocryphal
at the shoulder, the neck painted with an elegant boating party of Chenghua mark within a double circle.
scholars on a canopied skiff with an attendant preparing tea, the 18 1/4in (46.3cm) high
underside painted with a double line circle. $9,000 - 12,000
16 15/16in (43cm) high
$6,000 - 8,000 清康熙 青花山水花卉紋花觚

清康熙 青花山水壽字紋鳳尾尊 Provenance
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 23/24 May 1978, lot 146
Provenance
Acquired by the previous owner in Amsterdam, mid 1990’s

The poem inscribed on the vase is signed by the “Master of the Cloud
Forest” and it appears in various versions on a number of recorded
18th century artworks.

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