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十 12. A Chinese porcelain blue and white rouleau vase of form with high shoulder, ribbed neck and galleried rim, painted in a continuous
二 mountain river landscape scene with scholars and attendant on a rocky promontory, fishermen in boats, another crossing a bridge

青 carrying a basket, another standing on a third bridge and a scholar and attendant standing beside a further fisherman with a basket,
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山 all amongst wutong and pine, beneath clouds, migrating birds and the moon, the neck with bands of ruyi-heads, scrolls, keyfret and
水 jewels.
The base with a double ring mark in underglaze blue with inventory mark ‘D1736’.

人 17 ⅛ inches, 43.5 cm high.
物 Kangxi, 1662-1722.

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棒 • Formerly in the collection of Weetman Dickinson Pearson (1856-1927), 1st Viscount Cowdry, the famous oil industrialist and

槌 owner of the Pearson Conglomerate, Liberal MP for Colchester (1895-1910) and keen philanthropist. His business extended
瓶 to South America where he was central to the expansion of Mexico City while doing other major works in both Ecuador and

清 Colombia. His other business projects included building the Blackwall Tunnel in London and East River Tunnels in New York
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熙 as well as the discovery of one of the world’s largest oil fields in Mexico. In 1909, Lord Cowdry purchased Dunecht House, a
stately mansion in which he employed Ashton Webb to decorate and furnish and where this vase remained for over a century.
• A similar rouleau, 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. 290, pp. 447-9.

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