Lot 41
41
A BLUE AND WHITE COMPRESSED GLOBULAR VASE modelled after a Venetian glass original decorated with leafy flower-sprays on the lower section below two elaborate handles applied to either side of a long tapering neck, the flaring rim with a band of scrolling foliage (rim chip), Kangxi

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A BLUE AND WHITE COMPRESSED GLOBULAR VASE modelled after a Venetian glass original decorated with leafy flower-sprays on the lower section below two elaborate handles applied to either side of a long tapering neck, the flaring rim with a band of scrolling foliage (rim chip), Kangxi
20.6 cm. high

Lot Essay

For a similar vase of very similar shape in the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, cf. D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, op. cit., pl. 107. Cf. also A. Du Boulay, op cit., p. 201, fig. 12, for the example sold at Christie's Great Rooms, 5 march 1979, lot 128, and R. Krahl and J. Ayers, op cit., vol. III, p. 1019, pl. 2181 for one of three similar bottles in the Topkapi Saray Museum.

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