Lot 1317
1317
A FINELY PAINTED BLUE AND WHITE GU-FORM BEAKER VASE
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLETION OF ALFRED GUNTERMANN
A FINELY PAINTED BLUE AND WHITE GU-FORM BEAKER VASE

TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1640

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A FINELY PAINTED BLUE AND WHITE GU-FORM BEAKER VASE
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1640
The vase is well painted with a scene of two confronting soldier/officials, each holding a sword, standing on either side of a large tree trunk that has been quartered, with an attendant carrying a halberd standing behind one official, and with horses to the sides. The center section is decorated with sprays of lotus, peony and camellia above pendent leaf tips on the lower body.
17¼ in. (44 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A blue and white beaker vase of similar shape and with similar decoration in the middle and lower sections, but decorated in the upper section with a scene of birds amidst ornamental rocks and flower sprays, was included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. exhibition, Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 29 January - 29 March 1981, p. 89, no. 65. An inscription on one side of that vase incorporates a cyclical date, gengchen , corresponding to 1640.

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