A FINE AND RARE IRON-RED AND GILT-DECORATED 'CARP’ ROULEAU VASE

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A FINE AND RARE IRON-RED AND GILT-DECORATED 'CARP’ ROULEAU VASE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The cylindrical body is deftly painted in iron red and black enamels with four large finely detailed carp reserved on a powder-blue ground, amongst further gilt smaller carp and aquatic plants, the shoulder with four flowerheads framed in quatrefoil panels reserved on a diaper border, the neck with two striding three-clawed dragons in gilt, all framed by formal borders. The base is decorated with an underglaze-blue lingzhi head.
18 ½ in. (47 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

A Japanese private collection, formed over the last two decades

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Lot Essay

Compare to similarly-decorated vases including one in the Baur collection is illustrated by John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, volume 2, Geneva, 1999, pl. 131; another illustrated by John Ayers in Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tokyo, 1990, pl. 193; one in the Musée Guimet is illustrated by J.J. Marquet de Vasselot and M.J. Ballot, Musée du Louvre: La Ceramique Chinoise-II, Paris, 1922, pl. 26.

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