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八 8. A Chinese porcelain blue and white cylindrical sleeve vase, rolwagen, painted in a continuous scene with vases containing flowering

plants including a slender tall baluster with camellia and prunus; a large jardinière with lotus flowers, leaves and arrow heads in
青 water; a slender pear shaped vase with magnolia; a crackled tripod censer with peony; a blue-ground baluster vase with tree peony
花 and a square jardinière with chrysanthemum, amongst ‘v’-shaped grass, rockwork and banana plant, with insects in flight, all
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景 beneath the moon and between anhua lines, the slightly flared neck with stylised leaves, the flat base unglazed revealing the white
圖 biscuit body.
筒 17 ½ inches, 44.5 cm high.

瓶 Transitional, Chongzhen, circa 1640.

明 • Sold by Sotheby’s New York in their auction of Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Paintings, 7th December 1983, no. 339.
崇 • Sold by Sotheby’s London in their auction of Chinese Export Porcelain, 16th July 1985, no. 42.
禎 • A similar sleeve vase, from the Grandidier Collection now in the Museé Guimet, Paris, is illustrated by Albert le Bonheur and

Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt in The World’s Great Collection, Oriental Ceramics, vol.7, Black and White Section, no. 98, G.5031;
another in The Gugong Museum Collection, Beijing, is illustrated by Chen Run Min in Qing Dynasty Porcelain and Underglaze
Blue of The Shunzhi and Kangxi Periods, no. 42, pp. 82/3, and a further example was included by Marchant in their Recent
Acquisitions catalogue 2010, no. 15, pp. 24/5.
• Vases, ping, containing prunus, mei, camellia, chahua, and other flowers with other decorative vessels form the rebus, xinshao
ruyi suizhao qinggong, ‘May all your wishes come true during the new year’.

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