Fine Chinese Paintings & Works of Art - 21st May 2019
Lot 144
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ROULEAU VASE KANGXI 1662-1722 Depicting a figure bearing a hu tablet as...
Estimate £6,000 - £8,000 | Hammer £11000
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Description
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ROULEAU VASE
KANGXI 1662-1722
Depicting a figure bearing a hu tablet as he kneels before a seated dignitary, with his attendants spread throughout the pavilion, the reverse painted with swirling clouds and banana trees, with bands of ruyi-heads, key fret and other geometric patterns to the cylindrical neck and galleried rim, 44cm.
Provenance: previously an English private collection, London, acquired in the 1980s.
Cf. R Chen, Qing Shunzhi Kangxi Chao Qinghua Ci (Qing Dynasty Shunzhi and Kangxi Blue and White Porcelain), p.454, no.292 for a related vase in the collection of the Palace Museum.