Lot 162
BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER VASE, GUAN YIN ZUN
CHENGHUA MARK BUT 19TH CENTURY
Auction: 7 November 2018 at 16:00 GMT
£61,250
Description
the tapered ovoid body rising from a splayed foot to an everted rim, painted with a vivid scene of scholars and beauties seated at leisure in lakeside pavilions, watching ferrymen poling back and forth between the banks, the base with a six-character apocryphal Chenghua reign mark
Dimensions
46.5cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
From the collection of the late Alexander McLachlan (1920-2013), who attended the D-Day landing and began collecting Chinese and Japanese ceramics after returning to Scotland from the war.