AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE CARVED YENYEN VASE

KANGXI

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AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE CARVED YENYEN VASE
Kangxi
The baluster body and trumpet neck lightly carved and reverse-decorated with prunus branches well painted in outline and reserved against halos of rich, inky underglaze blue then reserved against the white ground, with blue rockwork beside the base of the branches, all within line borders
18in. (45.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the yenyen vase decorated in the same manner, but with blossoming magnolia branches, from the H.O. Havemeyer Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by Suzanne Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989 ed., p. 219, no. 210