AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE EUROPEAN SUBJECT DOUBLE GOURD VASE, the slender lower body painted on one side with two ladies standing on either side of a rabbit lying on a small table, one passing her companion a flower, their hair dressed à la mode Fontanges, the reverse with two similar figures, one offering a flower in exchange for a small bird, a dog jumping up between them, the upper body painted with blossoming prunus (cracked, mouth repaired), Kangxi

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AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE EUROPEAN SUBJECT DOUBLE GOURD VASE, the slender lower body painted on one side with two ladies standing on either side of a rabbit lying on a small table, one passing her companion a flower, their hair dressed à la mode Fontanges, the reverse with two similar figures, one offering a flower in exchange for a small bird, a dog jumping up between them, the upper body painted with blossoming prunus (cracked, mouth repaired), Kangxi
18.5cm. high

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Cf. Howard and Ayers, China for the West, vol.I, p.35, no.36 where the authors illustrate examples of the same scene and note that the subject illustrated is probably the sense of Smell inspired by a set of engravings depicting 'the Senses' by the four Bonnart brothers

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