Price
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Large Chinese powder blue baluster vase and cover.
Kangxi (1662-1722).
The body decorated with three large shaped panels enclosing a phoenix flying above flowers issuing from rockwork and a duck in a pond. With smaller panels variously enclosing flowers issuing from rockwork, butterflies, birds, a figure in a boat, surrounded by gilded lotus scroll, fish and crustacean, and a band of ruyi to the shoulder on a powder blue ground. The cover similarly decorated.
For a similar example see the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Accession Number:
1955-50-257a,b. The Western term "powder blue" was coined in reference to the technique used to create these pieces. The glaze was applied as a powder blown through a bamboo tube onto the body while the small panels which were to be later decorated were covered during this process.
Dimensions
18 1/2in. (47 cm.)Condition report
Areas of regilding, fritting to the foot, tiny flake to underside of cover, three chips to internal rim of coverStock number
U700The BADA Standard
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