A RARE CHINESE UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND COPPER RED YEN YEN VASE

KANGXI 1662-1722

The body decorated with two large shaped cartouches, each containing a ferocious Buddhist lion dog, divided by smaller panels painted with landscapes, the neck with rectangular panels containing birds in flight above flowering peony, a band of stylized dragons to the shoulder, all reserved on a dense shagreen-like ground between borders of key fret and ruyi-heads, 44.8cm.

Provenance: a private collection, Holland Park, London.