Asian Art I - 23rd May 2012

Lot 130

A Chinese blue and white yen yen vase Kangxi 1662-1722

Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £2000

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Description

A Chinese blue and white yen yen vase Kangxi 1662-1722, painted with panels containing vases and auspicious objects on a blue cracked-ice ground with prunus flowers, the rim ground and with a short hair crack, 45.2cm. Provenance: an English private collection, formerly in the collection of Henry M. Knight (d.1971), Cf. Davids and Jellinek, Provenance, pp.276-280 for details about Henry Knight.