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Pair of Chinese blue and white facetted hexagonal vases.

Kangxi (1662-1722).

The body decorated with alternating panels of a lady in a fenced garden and flowers in a jardieniere on a stand with precious Daoist emblems, against a cracked-ice ground.

The long neck with florets between stylised lappet bands. The spreading foot with ruyi-shaped panels. The bases with the letter ‘G’ in underglaze blue.

Christiaan Jörg supports the theory of the 'G’ mark belonging to a particular person, probably a Dutch merchant in the 17th century, citing the similar use of a single initial to a group of blue and white Japanese apothecary bottles (see Jörg, ‘Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: The Ming and Qing Dynasties’, p. 259).

A pair of 'G'-marked bottles with a similar pattern but in famille-verte is also in the Rijksmuseum. Another blue and white pair are in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Collection No. LL 6450-51-52. 

Dimensions

Height: 30cm. (11 ¾ in.)




Stock number

W159
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