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A YELLOW-GROUND MING-STYLE A BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER VASE, GU
‘LANDSCAPE’ GARLIC-HEAD PEAR- Kangxi
SHAPED VASE The thinly potted, white body crisply painted
Kangxi with narrative scenes to the neck and foot, the
Finely painted around the slender neck and mid-section with a medallion of leaping carp
globular body with a scene of boys at play to one side, and a qilin to the other, the base
in a fenced terrace against a background of with a double circle. 47.5cm (19 5/8in) high
‘master of the rocks’ style craggy mountains,
the scene interrupted by a hatched band at £3,000 - 5,000
the neck, the bulbous head with floral sprays CNY26,000 - 44,000
under the lipped rim, all set on a yellow HK$29,000 - 48,000
enamel ground. 38.8cm (15 1/4in) high
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£2,000 - 3,000 A BLUE AND WHITE ‘PRECIOUS
CNY18,000 - 26,000 OBJECTS AND ANTIQUES’ BEAKER
HK$19,000 - 29,000 VASE, GU
Kangxi
The shape of the present lot is more often The exterior painted in washes of blue with the
found in Wanli production, both in wucai and ‘Hundred Antiques’. 42cm (16 1/2in) high
in blue and white. However, the painting here
more closely resembles 17th century ‘master £1,500 - 2,000
of the rocks’ style wares and early Kangxi CNY13,000 - 18,000
designs. HK$15,000 - 19,000

The most famous example of this shape in the Provenance: Peter Wain, on 10 July 1991
Wanli reign, an extremely large wucai ‘dragon’ (receipt).
garlic-head vase, Wanli mark and period, is
illustrated in The Complete Collection of the
Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains
in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong 14
Kong, 2007, pl. 28.

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