Ref: U28
Archive item - not for sale
Chinese blue and white bottle vase, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated with two mythical beasts with forked tails and tufted headsamong cloudscrolls and above a band of waves, the neck with flower sprays, scrollwork and stiff leaves, the foot with lotus-scrolls, flower mark to base; height: 9 1/2in., 24.2cm; condition: ?scratch to body, frits to rim and footrim. These mythical beasts may have been inspired by European heraldic designs of lions. For a similar vase in the Rijksmuseum see, Jorg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam pl. 319, p. 276. An example can also be found in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Accession no. 47.86. SOLD
