A CHINESE POWDER BLUE-GROUND ROULEAU 'CARP' VASE

KANGXI 1662-1722

Decorated with four iron-red carp amongst gilt fish and aquatic plants, with shou characters and flyfots to the neck, 46cm.

Cf. J Ayres, The Baur Collection, Chinese Ceramics, Vol.4, no.A559. Similar vases are also in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. See W B Honey, Guide to Later Chinese Porcelain, p.50, pl.85.