Lot Essay
For a similar vase, see Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia, 1990, p.79, no.38.
CIRCA 1640
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A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE LONG-NECKED GLOBULAR BOTTLE VASE
circa 1640
Finely painted around the bulbous body with a garden landscape with boys at play encountering a dignitary with his chariot and entourage, below a band of leafy scrolls at the shoulder, the long neck with two registers of stylised flower-sprays divided by a raised section with flower-scrolls
15¼ in. (39cm.) high
circa 1640
Finely painted around the bulbous body with a garden landscape with boys at play encountering a dignitary with his chariot and entourage, below a band of leafy scrolls at the shoulder, the long neck with two registers of stylised flower-sprays divided by a raised section with flower-scrolls
15¼ in. (39cm.) high