A RARE BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER VASE

TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CHONGZHEN (1628-1644)

Details

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER VASE
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CHONGZHEN (1628-1644)
Finely painted on the neck with a cockerel standing on a rock flanked by magnolia and peony, with butterflies on the reverse, the center section with foliate medallions and shou characters and the lower section with pendent leaf tips, all within incised anhua borders
17¾ in. (45.2 cm.) high

Literature

The Asian Art Week, celebrating the exhibition at Kensington Palace, illustrated on the cover, circa 2000.

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Lot Essay

The symbolism of the decoration on the neck represents the rebus, shi shang da ji ('may enormous good fortune come to your family'). A slightly smaller (43.1 cm.) blue and white vase of the same form with nearly identical decoration, in the collection of the Palace Museum, is illustrated in Qing Shunzi Kangxi Zhao Qinghua Ci, Beijing, 2005, no. 54.

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