A RARE BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER VASE

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER VASE
ENCIRCLED JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK, KANGXI

The trumpet neck finely painted with a scholar official at his desk before a marble screen, being entertained by a pair of beauties preforming a 'long sleeve' dance accompanied by female musicians several of whom stand on the balcony outside, the bulbed waist encircled by seasonal floral sprigs above a further continuous landscape scene where the scholar sits on a bench in a garden as his attendants approach with a qin and scrolls (small crack to edge of base)
16 1/8 in. (41 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

The scene on the upper register of ladies performing a dance for a scholar probably alludes to the notion of scholars' decadence based on popular paintings such the Ming dynasty handscroll, Spring Morning in the Han Palaces in the Shanghai Museum, and the 16th-17th century version of Night Revellers of Han Xizai in the Chongqing Municipal Museum, Sichuan province, both illustrated by Wu Hung, The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting, figs. 152-3 and 154.

(US$13,000-20,000)

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