An enamelled baluster vase 20th century, painted by Wang Dafan
Various Owners
An enamelled baluster vase
20th century, painted by Wang Dafan (1888-1961)
One side attractively enamelled with two boys riding water buffaloes riding across a river and watching two swallows above them, three iron-red seals at the lower part of the back of the vase.
31cm (12¼in) high
Sold for £133,250 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance: Michael Kaynes-Klitz, purchased by him in/before 1987

    Illustrated: Peter Wain, The Kaynes-Klitz Collection, Part I, 1995, Catalogue no.14

    Anthony Evans believed that the artist Wang had painted this vase in a recognisable gongbi style.

Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art


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