VASE EN PORCELAINE BLEU BLANC À DÉCOR D’ANIMAUX FABULEUX

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Property from a European Private CollectionChristie’s is honoured to offer this collection of Chinese and Japanese art in Art d’Asie and Art of Asia online this June. The collection was assembled over the last thirty years with the majority of works acquired from leading international auction houses and dealers including Spink & Son, Marchants, Vanderven and Vanderven and Jorge Welsh.

VASE EN PORCELAINE BLEU BLANC À DÉCOR D’ANIMAUX FABULEUX

CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, ÉPOQUE KANGXI (1662-1722)

Details

VASE EN PORCELAINE BLEU BLANC À DÉCOR D’ANIMAUX FABULEUX
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, ÉPOQUE KANGXI (1662-1722)
Hauteur : 45,3 cm. (17 7⁄8 in.)

Provenance

Dr John Pullan (1915-1995) collection.
With Spink & Son, London, 8 February 1999.

Literature

Spink & Son, Chinese Blue & White Porcelain from the Pullan Collection, Spink & Son, London, 1998, p. 39, no. 50.

Exhibited

London, Spink & Son, Chinese Blue & White Porcelain from the Pullan Collection, 16-30 November 1998.

Further details

A BLUE AND WHITE ‘MYTHICAL BEAST’ PHOENIX-TAIL VASE
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

It is unusual to find phoenix-tail vases with this mythical beast design. A related example sold at Christie's London, 13 May 2014, lot 389 and another from the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, is illustrated by Chen Runmin in Blue and White Ceramics in Shunzhi and Kangxi Periods, Beijing, 2005, p. 475, pl. 306.

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