A small Chinese blue and white double gourd vase Transitional c.1640

£2,000 - £3,000

A small Chinese blue and white double gourd vase Transitional c.1640, brightly painted with figures in a rocky landscape and with bands of leaves and lappets, small chips around the rim ,19cm. Provenance: an English private collection. Cf. C. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p.76, no.62 for a related vase.