26th May, 2021 12:00
European & Asian Works of Art
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A LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE VASE
A LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
baluster, with slightly waisted neck, painted with figures in an extensive landscape with two phoenix and a deer, one group of onlookers observing a standing figure with a stream enclosing a dragon issuing from his mouth, the neck painted above a moulded girdle with four of the 'Precious Things' amid leafy tendrils, on a girdled spreading foot, underside with 'Sonorous Stone' symbol within double circles
38.5cm high, cracked
Provenance: property of an English noble family
Sold for £7,000
A LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE VASE, KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
baluster, with slightly waisted neck, painted with figures in an extensive landscape with two phoenix and a deer, one group of onlookers observing a standing figure with a stream enclosing a dragon issuing from his mouth, the neck painted above a moulded girdle with four of the 'Precious Things' amid leafy tendrils, on a girdled spreading foot, underside with 'Sonorous Stone' symbol within double circles
38.5cm high, cracked
Provenance: property of an English noble family
Auction: European & Asian Works of Art, 26th May, 2021
