Fine Chinese Paintings & Works of Art - 21st May 2019
Lot 145
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ROULEAU VASE KANGXI 1662-1722 The cylindrical body painted with a...
Estimate £8,000 - £12,000 | Hammer £15000
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Description
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ROULEAU VASE
KANGXI 1662-1722
The cylindrical body painted with a continuous scene of armed warriors riding horses in pursuit of another soldier in a rocky landscape, with craggy mountains and swirls of mist in the distance, the neck decorated with bands of ruyi-heads, key fret and other geometric designs, 47.5cm.
Provenance: previously an English private collection, London, acquired in the 1980s.
Cf. Christie's New York, 13th-14th September 2018, lot 1364 for a similar vase.