Fine Chinese Paintings & Works of Art - 7th December 2020
Lot 85
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'QILIN' SLEEVE VASE
Estimate £4,000 - £6,000 | Hammer £4000
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Description
A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'QILIN' SLEEVE VASE
SHUNZHI 1644-61
The tall cylindrical body flaring at the rim, painted with a qilin seated in a landscape amidst rockwork and plantain, with pendant leaves and sprays of pomegranate and magnolia below, 40.6cm.
Provenance: acquired in the 1980s.
Cf. J Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol.1, p.128, nos.247 and 248 for two vases with similar decoration; see also R Chen, Qing Shunzhi Kangxi Chao Qinghua Ci (Qing Dynasty Shunzhi and Kangxi Blue and White Porcelain), pp.100-101, no.53 for a related blue and white Shunzhi period sleeve vase decorated with a qilin and phoenix in a rocky landscape above scrolling lingzhi and pendant leaves.