Lot Essay
A very similar vase was included in the exhibition, Objets d'art Chine, Collection L. Wannieck, Paris, March 1913, Catalogue, pl. XXVIII
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AN UNUSUAL UNDERGLAZE-RED AND BLUE-DECORATED CARVED YENYEN VASE
KANGXI
Both the lower body and neck decorated with Luihai and another immortal, each of the similar figures shown in a different pose and dressed in a slightly different manner, but each wearing a robe or tunic decorated with shou characters in alternating underglaze blue or red, the two figures of Luihai shown tempting a three-legged toad with a string of cash, the other two figures standing beside a crab, all reserved on a ground of dense lotus scroll within herringbone borders, leaf mark on base, short firing crack
17½in. (44.5cm.) high
KANGXI
Both the lower body and neck decorated with Luihai and another immortal, each of the similar figures shown in a different pose and dressed in a slightly different manner, but each wearing a robe or tunic decorated with shou characters in alternating underglaze blue or red, the two figures of Luihai shown tempting a three-legged toad with a string of cash, the other two figures standing beside a crab, all reserved on a ground of dense lotus scroll within herringbone borders, leaf mark on base, short firing crack
17½in. (44.5cm.) high