Lot 6: AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE CRACKLE-GLAZED 'FLORAL' VASE 19th century

AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE CRACKLE-GLAZED 'FLORAL' VASE

19th century

The globular body surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck, painted overall in cobalt blue under a lightly crackled glaze with a dense network of foliate scrolls issuing flowerheads alternating from smaller prunus and mallow blooms to larger flora with tall stamen and serrated petals, dressed in brown at the rim and at the deeply cut biscuit base.


14 1/2in (36.8cm) high

十九世紀 仿哥釉青花纏枝花卉紋天球瓶



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



For a large blue and white plaque decorated with very similar large flowerheads on a scroll ground, see Gunhild Avitabile,
From the Dragon's Treasure, Chinese Porcelain from the 19th & 20th century, London, 1987, p.27, no.15.

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