A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE-VASE painted on the lower section with two fan-shaped panels, one depicting an elephant, the other a qilin divided by scattered flower-sprays below a band of floral scroll on the shoulder, the tall globular neck with similar flower-sprays beneath cloud-scrolls and a band of stiff leaves, circa 1643

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A TRANSITIONAL BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE-VASE painted on the lower section with two fan-shaped panels, one depicting an elephant, the other a qilin divided by scattered flower-sprays below a band of floral scroll on the shoulder, the tall globular neck with similar flower-sprays beneath cloud-scrolls and a band of stiff leaves, circa 1643
37cm. high

Provenance

'The Hatcher Asian Junk', Christie's Amsterdam, February 1985

Literature

C. Sheaf and R. Kilburn, op. cit., p. 56, pls. 70, 71 (colour)

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