Lot 78: TWO SMALL BLUE AND WHITE GU-SHAPED BEAKER VASES Kangxi

TWO SMALL BLUE AND WHITE
GU-SHAPED BEAKER VASES

Kangxi

Each painted in a rich cobalt blue in an archaistic style with
taotie-masks on a diaper-cell ground between whorl bands to the shallow barrel-shaped central section between leaf lappets to the spreading lower section and trumpet-shaped upper section. (2)


9 5/8 in (24.4cm) and 9 1/4in (23.4cm) high

Larger beaker: Generally, in good overall condition. A few minor kiln pinprick bubbles to the surface but unobtrusive. mall burst bubble on rim.


Smaller beaker: This has three large breaks restored to the trumpet rim with overpainting to some smaller losses.

清康熙 青花獸面蕉葉紋花觚兩件



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



Early labels attached to each vessel read '89' in the case of the larger vase and '93' to the other.



For a similarly decorated Kangxi blue and white beaker vase with lappets dividing masks at the central section, see
The Appreciation of Jingdezhen Porcelain of the Qing Period, 1994, p.30, no.014.

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