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A RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE ROULEAU VASE
Kangxi
Boldy and brightly painted around the cylindrical body with a
continuous scene of scholars and attendants in a mountainous
riverscape dotted with large pavilions, the neck with horizontal bands
of ruyi-heads, key-fret border, trellis pattern, and swirl band.
76.5cm (30in) high.

£120,000 - 150,000
CNY1,100,000 - 1,300,000

清康熙 青花山水人物圖大棒槌瓶

Provenance: an English private collection
Bonhams London, 12 May 2011, lot 293

來源：英國私人收藏
倫敦邦瀚斯，2011年5月12日，拍品編號293

Compare with a blue and white rouleau vase, Kangxi, of similar
massive size and form, and another of similar design, but smaller,
illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum: Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), Hong
Kong, 2000, pls.14 and 15. See also a similarly-painted large blue
and white rouleau vase in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Wang
Qingzheng, ed., in Underglaze Blue & Red, Hong Kong, 1987, pl.186.;
another large blue and white rouleau vase in the Salting Collection in
the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated by W.B.Honey, A
Guide to the Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1927, pl.31. see also a
further pair formerly in the Bahr collection, illustrated by A.W.Bahr, Old
Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China, London, 1911, pl.LVIII.

Compare with a related blue and white rouleau vase, Kangxi, which
was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 June 2015, lot 3226.

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