A CHINESE CELADON-GROUND 'EIGHT HORSES' YEN YEN VASE

KANGXI 1662-1722

The baluster-shaped body surmounted by a tall flaring neck, decorated in slip, underglaze blue and copper-red with the Eight Horses of Mu Wang, the horses gallop, lounge and graze in a landscape, with a tall pine tree growing amidst craggy rocks to one side, the design set against a sage green ground, with simple blue double rings to the white base, 44.3cm.

Cf. Marchant, Exhibition of Kangxi Underglaze Blue and Copper-Red, pp.90-91, no.29 for another celadon-ground yen yen vase painted with the Eight Horses of Mu Wang; see also J Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol.II, pp.500-501, no.1272 for an ormolu-mounted rouleau vase with a comparable design; see also Sotheby's New York, 20th March 2018, lot 370 for a pair of similarly decorated gu vases.