A powder blue mallet vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi (1662-1722).
Tietoa ostamisesta
Lisätietoja ja kuntoraportit
The vase has a domed body and a tall cylindrical neck rising to a lipped rim, and is decorated in powder blue and with a highly stylized kui phoenix design in gold. Height 23 cm.
Wear to gilding.
Alkuperä - Provenienssi
With old inventory mark to base that reads 'G H Clarke, Jan 8 1947. no42'.
Purchased at Bukowskis Important Winter Sale 621 lot 777.
Näyttelyt
Compare with Christies, lot no 1201. 14–15 SEP 2017, Live auction 13751. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art.
Compare also with a blue and white vase sold at Sothebys, Important Chinese Art
05 April 2017 • Hong Kong
Sale Total: 276 527 500 HKD Sale Number: HK0722. Lot 3623.
Kirjallisuus
A related in shape Kangxi-period mallet-form but blue and white vase in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Qingdai yuyao ciqi, vol. I, part II, Beijing 2005, pp. 102-3, no. 40.
There are also vases of this shape in other museums, such as two in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai; the first Kangxi mark and period vase is illustrated in Wang Qingzheng, Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai, 1998, pl. 71 and the other illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji / The complete works of Chinese ceramics, vol. 14: Qing (I), Shanghai, 2000, pl. 24.