Sold Ceramics - Sold Blue and White Kangxi Period 1662-1722 - 'Long Eliza' Vases - Page 1

Object 201039

Double-gourd vase

China

c.1700

Height 120 mm (4.72 inch), diameter 51 mm (2.01 inch), diameter of mouthrim 30 mm (1.18 inch), diameter of footring 35 mm (1.38 inch)

Double-gourd vase on footring. The rim unglazed inside for cover, now missing. Decorated in underglaze blue with around the foot and waist a cloud pattern border. On the body six moulded panels alternately filled with a flowerpot on a stand and 'Long Eliza' figures. On the neck panels alternately filled with flower sprays and little dancing boys. Around the rim a zig-zag lines pattern border. Marked on the base with the single character mark: Yu, (Jade (Yuan to Qing)), in a double circle, underglaze blue.

The Yu, 'jade', character mark is traditionally called the F-mark in the Netherlands and is very common on good-quality blue and white Kangxi export porcelain. (Jörg & Van Campen 1997, p.115)

Condition: A hairline to the rim and a firing flaw to the body and footring.

References:

Davison 1994, cat. 33

Jörg & Van Campen 1997, cat. 91 & 116

Price: Sold.