A Rare Iron-Red and Gilt-Decorated Double-Gourd Vase

KANGXI

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A Rare Iron-Red and Gilt-Decorated Double-Gourd Vase
Kangxi
The lower body delicately painted with four roundels composed of the 'Three Friends' and lingzhi fungus, separated by pendent flowerhead-centered tassels below a ruyi collar and band of chrysanthemum scroll on the shoulder and repeated on the neck above further pendent chrysanthemum sprays and detached flower sprigs, all below a band of upright leaf tips and penciled scroll borders
15¾in. (40cm.) high

Provenance

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York

Lot Essay

Porcelain vessels with this type of decoration in this palette were made for export. See the large ovoid jar included in the exhibition, Ancient Chinese Trade Ceramics, National Museum of History, Taipei, no. 72; a rouleau vase illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, London, 1986, vol. III, p. 1193, no. 2923; and a bottle vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by S.W. Bushell, Chinese Art, vol. II, London, 1924 ed., fig. 38.

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