KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'THREE-STRING' VASE, LAIFU ZUN
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The vase is decorated to the body with a river landscape with a fisherman on a boat passing by rocks and pine trees. The slender neck is decorated with two bamboo sprays above three moulded bow-strings to the shoulder. The base has an apocryphal Chenghua mark.
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) high.

Provenance

With Vanderven & Vanderven Oriental Art, the Netherlands, 25 November 1998.

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Lot Essay

The shape of this vase laifu zun, 'turnip-shaped vase', referes to the custom of naming porcelain forms after plants by Chinese scholars. The shape is also called sanxuan zun (three string vase) and was popular among peachbloom-glazed wares of the Kangxi reign. This shape derives its name from the rings around the neck which recall the strings used on Chinese musical instruments.

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