Ref: X539
Archive item - not for sale
Chinese blue and white vase, late Kangxi (1662-1722), the pear shaped body on a slightly spreading foot and with a flared neck, decorated in a bright under-glaze blue with taotie masks, above a band of stiff leaves the rim similarly decorated, opposing loop handles terminating at the top with well modelled dragon heads, circles of ringlets where they attach to the neck, the base of the handles attached to where there is band of stylised jui heads above a band of Greek key frets. Height: 15 3/4in., 40cm; condition: firing crack to base, faint stress ‘hair-lines’ cracks to base of handles For a vase of similar shape and size decorated in the archaistic manner see Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum, Ceramics, volume 21, compiled by the Palace Museum, p186 illustration 113 Museum No. 88159It is worth noting this shape is based on an early bronze shape; see Kerr, Rose. Later Chinese Bronzes, page 43 object 31 where both the shape of this Song vase circa 1173 and handles are very similar. The archaistic decoration goes back to Shang period bronzes. Archaism became popular with commencement of the Yongzheng period, hence seal marks were often used on porcelain as opposed to six character marks although the designs on Imperial Qing wares often copied the early Ming and Xuande periods but they generally tended to be more crowded.Provenance: Trelissick House, from the collection of Ronald Copeland (1884-1958) who was president and chairman of Copeland and Spode from 1913 and married Ida Fenzi (daughter of Count Camillo Fenzi , d.1883, and Lady Evelyne Galton who in 1898 married Leonard D. Cunliffe) SOLD
