Asian Art - 14th November 2017
Lot 87
A PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE YEN YEN VASES KANGXI 1662-1722 Each painted in bright underglaze...
Estimate £10,000 - £15,000 | Hammer £16000
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Description
A PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE YEN YEN VASES
KANGXI 1662-1722
Each painted in bright underglaze blue with four deer and three cranes in a rocky landscape, the rims and shoulders with stylised cloud bands, the feet with simple lappets, 45.8cm. (2)
Provenance: sold by Spink & Son, in the 1970s and formerly in the Chang Collection in California in the 1980s.
Cf. Qing Shunzhi Kangxi Chao Qinghua Ci, pp.476-477, nos.307 & 308 and also C Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p.98, no.88 for similar vases. See also C R Min, The Gu Gong Museum Collection of Qing Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain, Shunzi and Kangxi Period Underglaze Blue, pp.476-477, nos.307 & 308.