KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

A similar baluster vase and cover with figural and landscape panels, in the collection of Augustus the Strong, now part of the Porcelain Collection, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, in Dresden, acquired in May 1722 from the dealer Madame Bassetouche, is illustrated by Eva Ströber in La Maladie de Porcelaine, Leipzig, 2001, no. 26, pp. 66-67. Two others, from the collection of Dr. Leonard Gow, are illustrated by The Earl of Lytton, Sir William Llewellyn and Laurence Binyon in the Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935-1936, Royal Academy of Arts, London, no. 1817 & 1829, pl. 172, pp. 152-153. One of a pair is illustrated by R.L. Hobson C.B. in The Leonard Gow Collection of Chinese Porcelain, no. 146, colour pl. XXXI, p. 42-43.