A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE GU BEAKER VASE

KANGXI 1662-1722

Painted with many panels, containing mountainous landscapes, small figures in boats and flowering sprays of peony emerging from rocks, the flaring rim with a chevron band to the interior, the base with an artemesia leaf, 42.7cm.

Provenance: a private collection, Holland Park, London.

Cf. C Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p.100, no.90a, where a garniture with a comparable design is illustrated.