A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE SLEEVE VASE

TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1640-1650

Details

A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE SLEEVE VASE
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1640-1650
The tapering, cylindrical vase is decorated with two leaf-shaped panels that contain a moonlit scene of birds or geese with blossoming branches, with scattered floral branches around the panels and on the waisted neck. The flat base is unglazed.
17 ½ in. (44.1 cm.) high

Provenance

Jan van Beers, London, 1984.
Collection of Julia and John Curtis.

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Lot Essay

While vases of this shape are known in the West as the rolwagen, the shape in fact is originally Chinese (see Stephen Little, Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period: 1620-1683, New York, 1984, p. 68). Examples of the shape were included in the Hatcher Cargo, a Chinese junk that sank in the South China Sea, circa 1643-1646, and include the vase sold at Christie’s New York, 20-21 March 2014, lot 2137.

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