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Lot 330

A wucai rouleau vase
Kangxi

13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A wucai rouleau vase

Kangxi
The cylindrical vase rising to the tall shoulders and cylindrical neck surmounted by an everted rim, supported on a short footring, well enamelled with a ruler in an audience with officials beside a garden with plantain growing amidst rockwork below cloud scrolls, the neck variously decorated with auspicious characters reserved on a honeycombe diaper ground, ruyi-heads and a zigzag design.
26.8cm (10½in) high.

Footnotes

Provenance: R.B. crested label (possibly for Richard Bennett)
Mr and Mrs Alfred Clark, Iver Heath, collection label no.310
A German private collection

Exhibited: Royal Academy of Arts, London. International Exhibition of Chinese Art 1935-6, Exhibition no.1668
Oriental Ceramic Society Exhibition 19[...] Exhibition label
Oriental Ceramic Society Exhibition, The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, London, 1964, Catalogue no.162, label

Illustrated: Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art 1935-6, London, 1935, Catalogue no.1668.

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