Asian Art I - 23rd May 2012

Lot 135

*A large Chinese blue and white sleeve vase c.1640

Estimate £20,000 - £30,000

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Description

*A large Chinese blue and white sleeve vase c.1640, brightly painted with a figure on horseback and six bannermen in a rocky landscape, with pine, bamboo and plantain, the waisted neck with a stiff leaf border, a filled drill hole to the base, 44.4cm. Cf. C. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p.78, no.66 for a related example.