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A PAIR OF ‘BLUE AND WHITE’ BOTTLES
Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, early 18th century
26,5 cm high each
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. nn. 3516, 3524.
Standing on a circular foot, the flattened globular body rising to a long cylindrical neck with ribbed mouth, the decoration on the body with couples of dragons and vases on stands pending from laces knotted to ruyi heads, the base and the neck with floral sprays, stylized leaves and ruyi heads.
A pair of very similar bottles is in the Musée national Adrien Dubouché, Limoges (C. Shimizu (edited by), L’Odyssée de la porcelaine chinoise. Collections du Musée national de Céramique, Sèvres et due muse national Adrien Dubouché, Limoges, exhibition catalogue, Paris 2003, p. 145, n. 83); another comparable bottle is in the Topkapi Saray Museum in Instanbul (R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, 3 voll., London 1986, III, p. 1011, n. 2157); see also the piece in the Princesshof in Leeuwarden (inv. 02204) and the one in Metropolitan Museum of New York (inv. 29.149.15).
