A RARE PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE EROTIC-SUBJECT SQUARE-SECTION VASES, FANGGU

A RARE PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE EROTIC-SUBJECT SQUARE-SECTION VASES, FANGGU
KANGXI 1662-1722

Each vase painted with scenes from The Romance of the Western Chamber to the central section, the tall flaring necks and feet decorated with flowers, rocks and butterflies, with geometric bands of fylfots encircling the mouths and footrims, each painted with a couple engaged in amorous pursuits to the base, 26cm. (2)

Provenance: from a British private collection, previously purchased from D & M Freedman on 16th May 2012. A copy of the invoice is available.

Cf. M Beurdeley and G Raindre, Qing Porcelain, p.67, nos.69 and 70 for a pair of related vases also with couples in coitus to the bases; see also S Marchant & Son, Exhibition of Two Hundred Years of Chinese Porcelain 1522-1722, 1998, p.82, no.65 for another similar pair.

清康熙 青花春宮圖方觚 一對
來源：英國私人舊藏，2012年5月16日購於D&M Freedman（附發票復印件）。