Lot 276
276
A BLUE AND WHITE HOOKAH BASE
Property from a Private American Collection 
A BLUE AND WHITE HOOKAH BASE

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Details
A BLUE AND WHITE HOOKAH BASE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The compressed globular body decorated with three panels of antiques reserved on a prunus and 'cracked ice' ground repeated on the cup-shaped mouth above the flange encircling the neck, raised on a flat unglazed base
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Chait Galleries, New York.

Lot Essay

A very similar hookah base in the Riesco Collection was included in the O.C.S. exhibition, Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, 14th to 19th Centuries, London, 1953 - 1954, no. 258 (incorrectly illustrated as no. 259, pl. 16d).

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