M5505
Description
A Chinese porcelain large blue and white vase of slender form, decorated with a scene from the “Romance of the Western Chamber” with Zhang Sheng thanking General Du Que for saving his love Cui Yingying, surrounded by various high-ranking soldiers and officials inside the General’s tent with draped curtains and banners, the surrounds decorated with large varying trees and rockwork all beneath clouds, the neck with flower sprays and rockwork above a triangular diaper band, the base glazed-white and decorated with a ribboned artemisia leaf within a double-circle of underglaze-blue.
Kangxi, 1662-1722
21 ½ inches, 54.5cm high.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Sold by Sotheby’s London, 27th June 1974, lot 131.
- Sold by Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 28th November 1979, lot 168.
- Sold by Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 9th April 1999.
- Formerly in the Wolf Family Collection, No. 1167.
- Sold by Sotheby’s New York in their auction of Cross-Currents in America: The Wolf Family Collection, 21st April 2023, lot 602.
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