A GOOD CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘LANDSCAPE’ VASE

A GOOD CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘LANDSCAPE’ VASE
KANGXI 1662-1722

With a slender baluster-shaped body delicately painted in an intense underglaze cobalt blue with a mountainous river landscape with two figures fishing from sampans and a third figure landing a fish at the water’s edge, two wood-cutters carrying firewood walk down a winding rocky path. The neck is freely painted with bamboo and clouds, a six character Xuande mark, 46.5cm.

Provenance: a private collection, London, purchased from Nicholas Grindley in the 1980s.

Cf. Qing Dynasty Porcelain in the collection of the Palace Museum, Vol.1, Blue and White Porcelains of the Shunzhi and Kangxi Periods, pp.442-443, no.287, for a related vase, and p.447 no.290 for a rouleau vase with a similar subject.

清康熙 青花山水人物圖瓶
《大明宣德年製》仿款

來源: 英國倫敦私人收藏，於1980年代購於Nicholas Grindley。