Live Auction 7878Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
A RARE DOUCAI-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE-GROUND ROULEAU VASE
Lot 351

A RARE DOUCAI-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE-GROUND ROULEAU VASE

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Closed9 November 2010

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GBP 25,000

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A RARE DOUCAI-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE-GROUND ROULEAU VASE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Finely decorated with the Three Star Gods, Shoulao, Fuxing and Luxing, and young boys with a large plantain tree and a crane on the reverse, all reserved on a rich powder-blue ground further decorated with meandering gilt scrolls
17¾ in. (45 cm.) high

Specialist note

Compare the very similar rouleau vase decorated in coloured enamels with the Three Star Gods reserved on a powder-blue ground enriched with gilt floral scroll, illustrated by S.W. Bushell, Ceramic Art, Illustrated Examples From the Collection of W. T. Walters, New York, 1980 ed., p. 186, fig. 244.

Compare also a nearly identical pair of doucai-decorated powder-blue-ground rouleau vases sold in our New York Rooms, 19 September 2007, lot 332.