Lot 777
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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'HUNTING SCENE' BOTTLE VASE
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'HUNTING SCENE' BOTTLE VASE
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THE PROPERTY OF MARCHANT, EST. 1925
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'HUNTING SCENE' BOTTLE VASE

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'HUNTING SCENE' BOTTLE VASE
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The globular body is finely decorated in vibrant tones of cobalt blue with a continuous hunting scene, depicting a group of seven female equestrians hunting rabbits. The tall neck is encircled by a central band of roundels containing ladies reserved on a ground of fretwork diaper between a landscape band below and a band of ladies standing on either side of jardinières in a garden setting above.
16 ¾ in. (42.5 cm.) high
Provenance
A noble family collection, The Netherlands.
S. Marchant & Son, London, 2004.
Bertil J. Högström Collection, Stockholm, Sweden, no. 56, acquired June 2004.
Literature
S. Marchant & Son, Recent Acquisitions, London, 2004, pp. 36-37, no. 28.
Exhibited
New York and London, S. Marchant & Son, Recent Acquisitions, 26 - 31 March and 9 -15 June 2004.

Lot Essay

The present vase is unusually imposing, with its tall, columnar neck, but also shows the lively illustrative style of Kangxi blue and white wares on the body, with a depiction in one continuous scene of ladies galloping during a rabbit hunt. A vase of related form in the collection of the Shanghai Museum, but with the body divided into three sections, each depicting scenes from The Romance of the Western Chamber, is illustrated by Sir Michael Butler and Wang Qingzheng, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collection, Hong Kong and London, 2006, pp. 2586-287, no. 105. Another related vase, but with a slightly tapering neck and decorated with continuous landscapes, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated by Chen Run Min (ed.), Qing Shunzhi Kangxi Chao Qinghua Ci (Blue and White Porcelain from the Shunzhi and Kangxi Periods), Beijing, 2005, pp. 416-417, no. 270.

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