Fine Chinese Paintings & Works of Art - 1st July 2020

Lot 159

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER VASE TRANSITIONAL C.1640 The exterior painted with a continuous...

Estimate £5,000 - £8,000 | Hammer £13000

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Description

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER VASE

TRANSITIONAL C.1640

The exterior painted with a continuous scene depicting a king and his attendants greeting a wise old man in a rocky landscape, all below a finely incised foliate band, the short neck decorated with pendant leaves, 26cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, West Sussex, purchased from Christie's London on 9th July 1985, lot 10.