TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, MID-17TH CENTURY

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'FIGURAL' SLEEVE VASE
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, MID-17TH CENTURY
The vase is finely decorated with a continous scene depicting a warrior on horseback holding a halberd and an infant in his arms and another warrior standing by rocks and clouds, all below bands of incised flowers and pendant leaves to the neck.
9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high.

Provenance

With Ben Janssens Oriental Art, London, 2 June 1999.

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Lot Essay

The narrative scene on this vase is taken from the 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms', Sanguo Yanyi, depicting the rescue of the infant Liu Shan, son of Liu Bei, by Zhao Yun. Sanguo Yanyi is one of the most popular novels in China and has been regarded as one the of Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Scenes from these novels were often taken from illustrated books and copied on to porcelain.

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