A BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASE

XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK, KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASE
xuande six-character mark, kangxi (1662-1722)
Painted on one side with a scholar and attendants being shown a water buffalo led by a farmer, the scholar's two-wheeled vehicle and a further attendant waiting beside a willow to one side, all in a continuous rocky landscape, the slightly flaring neck with two phoenix amongst clouds above a band of ruyi lappets divided on each side by dark brown-glazed lion-mask handles, hairline cracks, chips to handles
12¾ in. (32.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

During the 17th/18th Century, for reasons of prestige, potters occasionally placed Ming emperors' marks on both domestic and export porcelain; most popularly used marks were those of the Emperors Xuande (1426-35) and Chenghua (1465-1487). Xuande marks were also widely used on bronzes of the 17th and 18th centuries. Compare the similar Kangxi blue and white vase of this size, with a Chenghua mark, in the Musée Guimet from the Grandidier Collection, illustrated The World's Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics, 1981, vol.7, fig.111.

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