A BLUE AND WHITE ROULEAU VASE

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A BLUE AND WHITE ROULEAU VASE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Finely painted with a continuous mountain and river landscape scene, depicting two scholars standing on a narrow path that has emerged from an embankment in the near distance leading to a homestead partially hidden behind mountain boulders in the far distance, the path emerges again to find two seated figures appreciating the tranquil riverscape scene whilst a lone fisherman is seated on a sampan moored by an embankment, variously detailed with wispy clouds and distant mountains, the cylindrical neck with a moulded bow-string dividing bands of ruyi-heads above classical scrolls and a band of key-frets, all beneath the galleried rim
18 in. (45.7 cm.) high

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Similar rouleau vases decorated with landscape scenes are published, cf. an example from the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 52. Two other vases are in the Palace Museum, Beijing, the first illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 18, no. 1; and Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Commercial Press Hong Kong, 2000, pl. 15.

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