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A ‘BLUE AND WHITE’ ROULEAU BALUSTER VASE
Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, early 18th century
22,1 cm high
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. n. 3734.
The cylindrical body surmounted by a short tubular neck (truncated in the higher section), the exterior decorated with a series of horizontal bands with stylized flowers, geometric motif and a couple of chi-dragons amidst clouds, the neck with a frieze of leaves.
A similar decoration can be seen on a number of vases with the same cylindrical shape: Philadelphia Museum (Leonard Gow Collection: R. L. Hobson, Catalogue of the Leonard Gow Collection of Chinese Porcelain, London 1931, n. 37, p. 14, pl. XVI), Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (C.J.A. Jörg, in collaboration with J. Van Campen, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Ming and Qing Dynasties, London 1997, p. 107, n. 102), Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon (M.A. Pinto de Matos, Chinese Porcelain in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon 2003, pp. 66-69, n. 10), Princesshof Museum, Leeuwarden (inv. NO 02211), Porzellansammlung, Dresden (inv. PO 7086).
The same decorative scheme was contemporary conducted also using the polychrome enamels of the ‘Famille Verte’ (see J. Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 2 voll. London 2016, I, p. 242, n. 515).
