KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A BLUE AND WHITE ROULEAU VASE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The vase is decorated with shaped cartouches enclosing scholars in a landscape, flowers, and auspicious animals, all reserved on a blue-washed scrolling lotus ground below a band of peonies to the shoulder. The neck is decorated with ruyi, key fret, and geometric bands.
18 1/8 in. (46.5 cm.) high

Provenance

With Marchant & Son Ltd., London, 25 October 1966.
Collection of The Bertil J. Högström, Stockholm, no. 10.
Collection of His Grace The Duke of Northumberland, no. 19.

Literature

Marchant, The Bertil J. Högström collection, Kangxi Blue and White Porcelain (1662-1722), London, 2011, pp. 66-67, no. 34.

Exhibited

Marchant, The Bertil J. Högström collection, Kangxi Blue and White Porcelain (1662-1722), London, November 2011, no. 34.

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Lot Essay

An identical vase is illustrated by R. L. Hobson, The Leverhulme Art Collections II, A Record of the Collection in the Lady Lever Art Gallery , Port Sunlight formed by the First Viscount Leverhulme, London, 1928, no. 122, pl. 13.

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