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A ‘BLUE AND WHITE’ BALUSTER VASE
Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, late 17th – early 18th century
28,8 cm high
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. n. 3742.
The slender vase with high shoulders painted with a bright blue enamel with a decoration of some of the ‘Hundred Antiques’ (bogu) between two bands of stylized flowers inside lobed cartouches.
The nearly identical vase in the Porzellansammlung in Dresden (PO 2484) has its original domed cover, here missing; another similar piece is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (J. Van Campen, Supplement to Chinese ceramics in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Ming and Qing dynasties, in collaboration with C.J.A. Jörg, Amsterdam 1997, p. 19, n. 156); see also the vase in the Museums für Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt am Main (G. Avitabile – S.G. von der Schulenburg, Chinesisches Porzellan, Frankfurt am Main 1992., p. 84, n. 150), the example published by Beurdeley–Beurdeley (1974, pl. 84) and the comparable item in the Gardiner Museum in Toronto (inv. G99.10.11a-b).
