A PAIR OF RARE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE EROTIC SUBJECT SQUARE-SECTION VASES, FANGGU

KANGXI 1662-1722

Each vase painted with scenes from The Romance of the Western Chamber to the central section, the tall flaring necks and feet decorated with flowers, rocks and butterflies, with geometric bands of fylfots encircling the mouths and footrims, each painted with a couple engaged in amorous pursuits to the base, 26cm. (2)

Provenance: from a British private collection, purchased from D & M Freedman on 16th May 2012. A copy of the invoice is available.

Cf. M Beurdeley and G Raindre, Qing Porcelain, p.67, nos.69 and 70 for a pair of related vases also with couples in coitus to the bases; see also S Marchant & Son, Exhibition of Two Hundred Years of Chinese Porcelain 1522-1722, 1998, p.82, no.65 for another similar pair.