Lot 1: A MINIATURE BLUE AND WHITE SOFT PASTE PORCELAIN 'LOTUS' VASE Kangxi

A MINIATURE BLUE AND WHITE SOFT PASTE PORCELAIN 'LOTUS' VASE

Kangxi

Of unusual, compressed form, the widely spreading body rising from a short foot to a tall, slightly waisted, cylindrical neck, painted in an attractive cobalt blue with dense curling leafy scrolls with lotus flowerheads borne on curling floral scrolls that continue up the neck to a narrow band of whorls and a raised bowstring band beneath upright lappets, the rim with further a whorl band, an encircled six-character
Xuande mark to the base.


2 3/4in (7cm) high

Generally, in excellent overall condition. There is a small iron spot on rim exterior. A most unusual, compressed bottle vase form. Recommended.

清康熙 漿胎青花纏枝花卉紋小荸薺扁瓶

青花 「大明宣德年製」雙圈楷書款



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




Provenance:

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York

Purchase by subscription, 1879

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present




來源：

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904)，紐約

會費購藏，1879 年

大都會藝術博物館，1879 年迄今



See also a similar example in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of Benjamin Altman (1913), illustrated on the museum's website (acc. no. 14.40.288).

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