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...

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...

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,...