KANGXI

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A blue and white celadon-ground three-piece garniture
KANGXI
Comprising a baluster vase and cover and two beaker vases, decorated with underglaze-blue roundels of 'Antiquities' and camellia, aster, prunus and peony issuing from rockwork, all reserved on a celadon ground carved with qilong dragons climbing through peony and stylised foliage, restorations
the jar 43 cm. high, the beakers 41 cm. high (3)

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Lot Essay

A similar five-piece garniture from the Collection of Augustus the Strong, King of Saxony, is illustrated by Eva Ströber, La Maladie de Porcelaine..., Berlin, 2001, pp. 108-109, no. 46, where the author notes that the garniture was acquired in 1723 from the dealer Madame Bassetouche.

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