Lot 312
312
Property from the MARY C. BELIN TRUST
THREE GILT-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE-GROUND ROULEAU VASES

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THREE GILT-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE-GROUND ROULEAU VASES
KANGXI

One decorated with two large rectangular panels, one depicting a prunus branch, the other a peony branch, separated by stacked roundels, the upper ones painted with inscriptions, the lower with a bird perched on a blossoming branch, all reserved on a dense ground of peony scroll; the second vase decorated with variously shaped panels of blossoming branches, mythical beasts in landscape settings, or groupings of 'antiques', the third vase decorated with three large panels of 'antiques'; all in gilding reserved on a bright powder-blue ground, gilding rubbed
17 7/8, 17 5/8 and 18 3/4in. (45.4, 44.8 and 47.6cm.) high (3)

Lot Essay

Similar vases are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by Warren E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. I, New York, 1949, p. 548, pl. 156 (top center), and in the Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 156