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A BLUE AND WHITE EWER FOR THE
ISLAMIC MARKET
Kangxi
The flattened pear-shaped body rising from a
spreading foot to a waisted neck with a raised band
and cupped mouth, brightly painted on both sides
with a riverside scene depicting scholars gazing at
rocky cliffs and crossing a bridge, all surrounded by
floral sprigs on the rest of the body, the spout and
handle with stylised flowerheads.
27.5cm (10 7/8in) high.

£7,000 - 10,000
CNY63,000 - 90,000

清康熙 青花開光山水紋執壺

The shape of this ewer derives from metal vessels,
known as aftaba, which were produced in Turkey
and India and used in conjunction with a basin for
hand-washing.

Compare with a ewer of similar shape, late 17th/
early 18th century, illustrated by R.Krahl and J.Ayers,
Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum,
34 Istanbul: A Complete Catalogue, III, Qing Dynasty
Porcelains, London, 1986, no.2153.
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AN UNUSUAL LARGE BLUE AND WHITE
‘RIVER LANDSCAPE’ BOTTLE VASE
Qing Dynasty
The vessel delicately painted around the
compressed, globular body with a continuous
landscape scene depicting a sampan crossing
a river flanked by high peaks and pine trees as a
gentleman gazes at the sky, the elongated neck
rising from a band of cross-hatch designs, painted
with another river scene featuring further sampan,
scholars and fishermen, the rim with further
branches of pine trees. 63cm (24 6/8in) high.
£12,000 - 15,000
CNY110,000 - 140,000
清 青花山水人物圖長頸瓶

Provenance: an English private collection

來源：英國私人收藏

The present vase is unusually imposing, with its
tall, columnar neck, and delicate rendering of a
riverscape scene in deep washes of cobalt-blue,
often employed on Kangxi wares. A vase of related
form, in the collection of the Shanghai Museum,
is illustrated by M.Butler and Wang Qingzheng,
Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the
Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collection, Hong
Kong and London, 2006, pp.2586-287, no.105.

Compare with a smaller but similarly-shaped blue
and white bottle vase, Kangxi, decorated with
officials in a garden, which was sold at Christie’s
New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1658. Another smaller
blue and white bottle vase, Kangxi, decorated with a
hunting scene, was sold at Christie’s New York, 23
35 March 2018, lot 777.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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