A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE MALLET-FORM VASE, SHUANGLUZUN
A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE MALLET-FORM VASE, SHUANGLUZUN

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A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE MALLET-FORM VASE, SHUANGLUZUN
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The elegantly potted vase of high-shouldered form with a single raised rib at the base of the slender, slightly waisted neck, the sides decorated in strong even underglaze-blue with two open-winged archaistic phoenix with stylised foliate bodies, each bird grasping a ring in its beak
7 1/2 in. (19.2 cm.) high
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J.T. Tai, New York
Cyrus and Mildred Churchill, Moleen, Illinois

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Very few examples of this rare form and decoration appear to published. An example in the Palace Museum, Beijing of similar size is illustrated in Gugong Bowu Yuancang, Qing Dai Yuyao Ciqi, Vol. 1, Beijing, 2005, pp. 162-163, no. 47. Another example in the National Museum of China is published in Studies of the Collections of the National Museum of China, Shanghai, 2006, pp. 4-5 no. 2. A slightly taller example (24 cm.) in the Meiyintang Collection with the reign mark written within double-circles is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, p. 126, no. 754.

Compare also with similar examples decorated in copper-red rather than underglaze-blue including one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. 15, pl. 141; one in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Wang Qingzheng (ed.), in Kangxi Porcelain Ware from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, no. 71, p. 108; and one illustrated by Liu Liang-yu in Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 5, p. 72.

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