Lot 76: THREE BLUE AND WHITE VASES Kangxi

THREE BLUE AND WHITE VASES

Kangxi

Comprising a barrel-bodied vase painted in bright cobalt shades with prunus and rockwork with a flying bird on one side, all above a tall flaring foot with leafy sprays and below aster or pinks on the slightly sloping shoulder, the cylindrical neck with circlets and
ruyi lappets; a small mallet vase with lotus flowerheads on swirling leafy stems that encircle the body and continue midway up the slightly waisted cylindrical neck to leaf lappets below the rim; and a miniature baluster vase and cover with six lightly molded lotus petal panels painted with floral sprays and rockwork, an artemisia leaf mark to the base. (3)


barrel-bodied vase: 5 13/16in (14.7cm) high
mallet vase: 5 3/4in (14.6cm) high
miniature vase and cover: 4 1/4in (10.8cm) high

Larger vessel: A few small iron spots and air bubble pinpricks but mostly unobtrusive.


Mallet vase: Neck rim reduced and polished. Some kiln glaze bubbles, frits and light, yellow stains to the glaze at the foot edge but mostly unobtrusive.


Small vase Small air bubble frit at the rim and small air-bubble pinpricks to the surface, mostly to the shoulder and the rounded foot. Fritting to the cover knop and a small bruise and edge chips at the rim.

清康熙 青花花石圖瓶帶蓋 青花纏枝蓮紋棒槌瓶 及

青花開光花卉紋小將軍罐 共三件



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




Provenance:

Bequest of William Rhinelander Stewart, 1929

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929-present




來源：

William Rhinelander Stewart 遺贈，1929 年

大都會藝術博物館，1929 年迄今



For other barrel-bodied vases of similar type retrieved from a circa 1690 Chinese shipwreck off the coast of Vietnam, see Christiaan J. A. Jorg and Michael Flecker,
Porcelain from the Vung Tau Wreck, The Hallstrom Excavation, UK, 2001, pp.46-47, figs.11 and 13.

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