A tall Chinese blue and white ‘pheasants and rocks’ beaker v...

Hammer

£6,000

A tall Chinese blue and white ‘pheasants and rocks’ beaker vase, gu, Kangxi period, painted with pheasants and other birds amid rocks, plum blossom and other flowers, between zig-zag banded borders, 43.5cm high, minor faults

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Provenance - UK private collection, 1920s or earlier, thence by family descent.
This collection of late Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain and bronze vessels has been owned by a single Cotswold family for a number of generations dating back to the 1920s or earlier.
The collection was formerly on display at the family home in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, UK before the house was sold in the 1980s. Some interior photos taken c.1982 show a number of the pieces on display in the family house and an inventory undertaken in 1948 by the local Campden auctioneer and valuer Alfred Bower lists many of the items. Extracts of the 1948 inventory are included where they correspond to the relevant lots in the sale.
Item 312 on 1948 inventory.

The vase has some over glazed firing cracks and glaze losses to the interior only. The edge of the foot has a 18mm x 10mm splinter chip and a smaller 6mm x 4mm glaze chip, otherwise in good condition with no restoration, or cracks detected.