Near pair of Chinese blue and white beaker vases, Kangxi (1662-1722)
Near pair of Chinese blue and white beaker vases, Kangxi (1662-1722)
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Description
Near pair of Chinese blue and white beaker vases, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated to the centre with quatrefoil cartouches containing two fan shaped panels enclosing a lady in a fenced garden near two towers within beribboned objects variously comprising the ‘hundred antiquities’, with a spray of flowering lotus to the lower body and peony to the upper body, within a flowerhead and ruyi patterned border to the rim and foot, height of taller: 12 in. (30.5 cm.), height of shorter: 11 7/8 in. (30.35 cm.); condition: rims slightly ground, one with two hairlines to body. For a similar example see, Jorg, Christiaan, ‘Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum: The Ming and Qing Dynasties’, pl. 284, p. 257. This pattern is also found on other blue and white vessels of differing shape.
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| Material and Technique | Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue |
| Origin | Chinese |
| Period | 18th Century |
| Condition | Other |
| Dimensions | Height: 30.35cm. / 30.5cm. |
Product REF: U991
