Vanderven Oriental Art

Oriental and Asian Art, Porcelain and Ceramics, Highlights

description

A five-piece garniture comprising of three ovoid covered jars and two beaker vases. They are decorated under the glaze in bright cobalt blue, with a predominantly floral decoration. Each jar has three large cartouches separated by vertical bands with a ‘cash’ diaper pattern in white on a blue ground. Each panel is decorated with flowering trees and ornamental rocks, with flying birds and insects above. Around the shoulders and foot are three large ruyi-shaped lappets with a blue ground and meandering chrysanthemums and leaves in white; they are linked by smaller ruyi-heads. Around the neck and foot is a blue border, decorated with six interspersed white double circles with in the centre a white stylised flower. Between each circle are two demi-flowers, one facing down from the rim, the other facing up from the shoulder. The high-domed lids have three lobed panels outlined with a thick blue line, decorated with rocks and flowering plants and crowned with blue lotus-bud finial. The undersides have a transparent glaze with a double blue ring. The matching beakers are similarly decorated in the same way on the outside, but the inside of the rim has a band of spikey foliage within a thin blue line.
 

Chinese Porcelain Garniture

Blue & White Porcelain | Overall Height: 43 cm | China, Kangxi Period (1662-1722), circa 1700

Provenance:
- Prince de Beauvau Croan Collection, France 20217

Published in:
- Vanderven Oriental Art Catalogue 2024, Provenance II; Tracing the History of Objects, no. 5

Contact

Vanderven Oriental Art

's-Hertogenbosch

www.vanderven.com