triple-gourd vase

A pair of Chinese porcelain blue and white triple-gourd bottle vases, Kangxi, 1662-1722. Courtesy Marchant each painted on the lower section with archaic bronze style taotieh masks between stylized animal heads, the centre bulb with three further taotieh masks and the top bulb with three archaic style characters in white on blue-ground roundels beneath lappets on the cylindrical tall neck, all between underglaze blue double lines. 9 7/8th inches, 25.1 cm high. Price on request. Formerly in the collection of Richard Bennett,... [Lire la suite]

A pair of blue-ground famille verte triple-gourd vases. Kangxi period. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2010 With quatrefoil and fan-shaped panels of various flowers on the bright, mottled ground, with black Johanneum inventory marks N. 139 and N. 143 to the base; 9 in. (22.8 cm.) high (2) - Est. $3,000 - $5,000 Provenance: Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 2 June 1994, lot 384. Exhibited: Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through the Ch'ien Lung, Los Angeles County Museum, 14 March-27 April, 1952, no. 352... [Lire la suite]

Four Chinese blue and white vases . Kangxi (1662-1722) Comprising a pear-shaped vase, 20.4 cm. high; a sprinkler decorated with large chrysanthemum-heads, 16 cm. high; a triple-gourd vase painted with flower-baskets, neck reduced, glaze frits and cracks, 23.5 cm. high; and a small baluster vase on a high foot moulded and painted with vertical panels of 'Lange Lijzen' and flower-pots, 12 cm. high (4). Estimate €1,500 - €2,500 The property of count and countess van Limburg Stirum - Luden. Christie's. European Noble And... [Lire la suite]