Asian Art - 22nd May 2007

Lot 552

A rare Chinese ovoid vase

Estimate £8,000 - £10,000

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Description

A rare Chinese ovoid vase, the body thinly potted and painted with a continuous scene of figures in fields and in boats in a rocky, watery landscape, 1st half 18th century, 25cm. Cf. Jrg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijks Museum, Amsterdam: The Ming and Qing dynastys, pp.288-9, no.337 for an eggshell vase of similar shape.