Description
A GILT-DECORATED POWDERBLUE BALUSTER VASE, KANGXI
China, 1662-1722. Of hexagonal baluster form and finely painted in gold around the body with a palace amid manifold calligraphies, the waisted neck with prunus, bamboo and orchids, all between various forms of bands, flanked by pairs of stylized dragon handles.
Provenance: From the collection of Georg Weifert (1850-1937). Thence by descent in the same family. Old collector inventory numbers and inscriptions painted in black ink to base. Weifert was a Serbo-Austrian industrialist and the first governor of the Federal Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.
Condition: Good condition. Minor firing flaws to one handle and foot rim. Some wear to gilding. Single drilling to base.
Weight: 6.7 kg
Dimensions: Height 53.2 cm
Literature comparison: Compare with a related pair of hexagonal powder blueglazed vases, 18th century, but with later European ormolu gilt-bronze mounts, illustrated by John Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol. II, London, 2016, p.561, nos.1358-1359.
Auction result comparison: Compare with a closely related pair of vases at Bonham’s London in Fine Chinese Art, 7 November 2019, lot 74, bought-in at GBP £10,000.
霽藍釉描金雙耳瓶,康熙
中國,1662-1722。六角形瓶,霽藍釉底,描金花卉紋亭臺樓閣以及詩詞,龍形雙耳。
來源:Georg Weifert (1850-1937)收藏,同一家族保存至今 。底部可見黑色老藏家收藏標簽。Weifert曾爲塞爾維亞中央銀行大班以及塞爾維亞、克羅地亞與斯洛文尼亞聯邦銀行大班。
品相:品相良好,執耳與足部邊沿有輕微燒製瑕疵。描金処有一些磨損,底部有一個鑽孔。
重量:6.7 公斤
尺寸:高 53.2 厘米
拍賣歷史:一對相似的描金雙耳瓶2019年11月7日于倫敦邦翰思以GBP £10,000成交。