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A FINE AND RARE GILT-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE-GROUND YENYEN VASE
Lot 1574ANOTHER PROPERTY

A FINE AND RARE GILT-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE-GROUND YENYEN VASE

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HKD 600,000

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A FINE AND RARE GILT-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE-GROUND YENYEN VASE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Finely painted in gilt with four large oblong panels, on the trumpet neck with a vignette of a magpie perched on a flowering prunus branch, and the other of drooping boughs laden with large chrysanthemums, and on the lower body with a panel enclosing lush peony sprays growing from rockwork, and another with a butterfly in flight above a lotus pond, divided by four smaller shaped cartouches of butterflies and orchids, all reserved on a slightly mottled sapphire-blue ground enriched with dense chrysanthemum scrolls and various geometric borders at the mid-section and mouth rim, with a lappet band around the base
18 1/4 in. (46.4 cm.) high, box

A Japanese private collection

Specialist note

A similar vase was sold in our New York Rooms, 2 December 1989, lot 398. However, yenyen vases with this type of gilt-painted powder-blue-ground decoration are quite rare, as the shape makes the composition more complex. Instead, this style of decoration is more often found on rouleau vases, such as the one with very similar panels of birds and flowers, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 243, inscribed with a poem dated to 1709.