TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1640-1650

While vases of this shape are known in the West as the rolwagen, the shape in fact is originally Chinese (see Stephen Little, Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period: 1620-1683, New York, 1984, p. 68). Examples of the shape were included in the Hatcher Cargo, a Chinese junk that sank in the South China Sea, circa 1643-1646, and include the vase sold at Christie’s New York, 20-21 March 2014, lot 2137.