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308 This style of lacquer decoration with delicate mother-of-pearl inlays seems
to have come to prominence in the latter part of the Kangxi reign. Many
A RARE LARGE LACQUER AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL- examples depict fgures in landscape or garden scenes, and some are taken
DECORATED PORCELAIN VASE from woodblock prints, as in the case of a square dish exhibited in Hong
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) Kong (illustrated in 2000 Years of Chinese Lacquer, Oriental Ceramic Society
of Hong Kong and Art Gallery, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993,
清康熙 瓷胎螺鈿人物故事圖瓶 pp. 184-5, no. 96), the scene on which is taken from the Yuzhi Gengzhi tu
(Imperial Edition of Pictures of Tilling and Weaving), which was printed in 1712.
The vase is of elongated ovoid shape with a waisted neck and faring mouth.
The white-glazed porcelain is lacquered and fnely inlaid with mother-of-pearl A baluster vase decorated in this similar style was sold in Christies London,
around the exterior to depict three scholars at a table beside bamboo and rocks 17 June 2003, lot 66. A similar vase from the collection of George de
before a river scene, all between geometric bands and a further river scene to Menasce, OBE, was illustrated in the Spink & Sons, London, catalogue in
the neck. 1971, p. 51, no. 206. Compare also the larger and slightly later vase decorated
in this style, sold in our Christies New York, 16 September 1998, lot 51.
19æ in. (50.2 cm.) high

£10,000-15,000 $16,000-23,000
€14,000-20,000

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