Lot 58: A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'PETAL'-MOLDED SLENDER BALUSTER VASE Kangxi

A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'PETAL'-MOLDED SLENDER BALUSTER VASE

Kangxi

The elegant body lightly molded with spiraling leaf-shaped panels and painted in bright cobalt tones with a dense design of leafy stems with peony flowerheads between a thin band of leafy flower stems at the shoulder and rounded short foot, the waisted neck with further lotus petals below a chevron band at the rim.


20 1/2in (52.1cm) high

Some minor glaze crackling to the neck with light staining. Some iron-spots and surface wear but unobtrusive. Generally, in excellent overall condition and with bright cobalt blue and attractive swirling molded petals.

清康熙 青花花卉紋盤口觀音樽



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Ernest A. Bischoff

American Art Association, New York, February 24-28, 1920, lot 950

Rogers Fund, 1920

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1920-present




來源：

Ernest A. Bischoff 舊藏

紐約 American Art Association，1920 年 2 月 24-28 日，拍品編號 950

Rogers 基金，1920 年

大都會藝術博物館，1920 年迄今



Most likely, this vase would have originally formed part of a five-piece garniture set, usually comprised of three baluster vases and covers and two slender beakers. For another vase decorated with similar densely scrolling leafy-stemmed flowers in spiraling panels, see Regina Krahl, John Ayers and Nurdan Erbahar,
Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, A Complete Catalogue, III, Qing Dynasty Porcelains, London, 1986, p.917, no.2115.



A vase and cover of similar size and decoration was sold in Bonhams Edinburgh, 10 July 2013, lot 275.

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