Lot Essay
The shape of these bottles is taken from European early 18th Century glass wine-bottles and is known as 'shaft and globe'.
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KANGXI (1662-1722)
Details
A MATCHED PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE EWERS
Kangxi (1662-1722)
Each with globular body and tall cylindrical neck with horizontal flange, the loop handle with dragon head and tail, similarly painted at the widest point with a continuous band of linked ogival panels containing lotus, the neck with similar panels containing floral motifs on a stylised cracked-ice-pattern ground
10½ in. (26.5 cm.) high (2)
Kangxi (1662-1722)
Each with globular body and tall cylindrical neck with horizontal flange, the loop handle with dragon head and tail, similarly painted at the widest point with a continuous band of linked ogival panels containing lotus, the neck with similar panels containing floral motifs on a stylised cracked-ice-pattern ground
10½ in. (26.5 cm.) high (2)
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.