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Lot 235

A very rare Bow vase, circa 1755

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A very rare Bow vase, circa 1755

With a broad foot simulating a Chinese hardwood stand, painted in blue with four fan-shaped panels of Chinese river scenes, circular floral panels in between and small landscape panels on the foot and slender neck, the powdered ground in a particularly bright blue, 21.7cm high, pseudo Chinese character marks (foot chipped and cracked)

Footnotes

For a vase of similar shape with kakiemon decoration, see Porcelain for Palaces (1990), p.284, pl.337. Another from the Freeman Collection is illustrated by Anton Gabszewicz, Bow Porcelain (1982), p.55. Two blue and white examples are shown by Bernard Watney, English Blue and white Porcelain (1973), pl.9 B and C

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