Lot 51
A Chinese blue painted square tapering vase, circa 1690 Kangxi mark and period
Auction: 21 March 2007 at 11:00 GMT
£29,875
Description
the flared neck decorated with bamboo, each side of the body with a panel of different plants: magnolias, chrysanthemums, prunus and lotus, all with birds in the branches, two opposed sides with poems, unglazed foot with glazed recessed square bearing six character mark
Dimensions
54.5cm high
Footnote
This is one of a group of similar vases made in the 1690s, which appear to be the productions of a small number of non-imperial kilns in Jingdezhen.
For similar examples, see: 'Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain: from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections' 2006, nos. 100 and 101.
Also: 'Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century' 1995, no. 52.