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A PAIR ‘BLUE AND WHITE’ BALUSTER VASES AND COVER
Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, late 17th – early 18th century
23,5 cm high each
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. nn. 3345, 3350.
The ovoid body of the vases decorated with rarefied compositions of slender flowering stems, enclosed on the shoulder and near the base by friezes with an undulating profile with lotus scrolls reserved on the blue ground.
Explicitly produced to be exported, this type of vases perfectly integrated with the redundant Baroque style which was prevalent in Europe in the late seventeenth – early eighteenth century, theorized by architects and decorators such as Daniel Marot (1661-1752), whose engravings depicting interiors often contain Chinese porcelain of this kind.
