Ref: Y140
Archive item - not for sale
Pair of Chinese blue and white baluster vases and covers, Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated with lotus petal panels and hanging grape vines, leaf and double ring mark to base, height: 17 3/4in. 45cm; condition: one with a hairline to the rim and chip to foot rim, the other in good condition, chips to covers. Provenance: from the Leonard Gow Collection. Leonard Gow (1859-1936) a philanthropist and senior partner in the shipping company Gow, Harrison & Co, was one of Glasgow’s greatest art collectors, specialising in pictures, etchings and Chinese porcelain. For more information on Gow’s collection see ‘Chinese Porcelain in the Collection of Mr. Leonard Gow’, R. L. Hobson, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. Vol. 35, No. 201 (Dec., 1919), pp. 269-277. SOLD
