A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE TALL SLENDER BALUSTER VASE

KANGXI 1662-1722

Painted with twelve large aster flowerheads amongst scrolling branches and leaves between two scroll bands and a further band of petals to the shoulder beneath the flared rim, a six character Xuande mark to the base, 45.3cm.

Cf. C R Min, The Gu Gong Museum Collection of Qing Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain, Shunzhi and Kangxi Period Underglaze Blue, pp.143-146, nos.287 & 288 for vases of this form.