Lot 13: A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MOLDED 'LOTUS PETAL' BEAKER VASE, GU Kangxi

A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MOLDED 'LOTUS PETAL' BEAKER VASE,
GU

Kangxi

Rising from a spreading foot to a bulbous central section surmounted by a tall flaring neck, each section with molded lotus petals, the lower section with landscape scenes alternating with rockwork issuing peony and prunus branches, the central section with jardinières issuing narcissus, begonia, and lotus dividing landscape and figural scenes, the upper section with two rows of similar alternating panels, all three sections divided by bands of diamond chevrons, the rim interior with a reserved band of lotus below further band of diamond chevrons, the glazed flat base with an encircled artemisia leaf mark.


20 1/2in (521cm) high

The rim edge with a wide section of fritting and a small associated chip (1cm). Other minor frits to extremities of the body but unobtrusive. Some iron spots.

清康熙 青花山水花卉圖花觚



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York

Purchase by subscription, 1879

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present




來源：

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904)，紐約

會費購藏，1879 年

大都會藝術博物館，1879 年迄今



A related pair of Kangxi period blue and white beaker vases with leaf-shaped panels containing ladies is illustrated by A. du Boulay,
The Taft Museum: It's History and Collections, Vol.II, New York, 1995, p.583, no.1931.188.190.

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