A Chinese blue and white ‘Daoist immortals’ yen-yen vase, Ka...

Hammer

£30,000

A Chinese blue and white ‘Daoist immortals’ yen-yen vase, Kangxi period, the trumpet shaped neck painted with the Sanxing (three star gods); Fu, Lu and Shou and attendants, the baluster shaped body with four versions of Liu Hai dancing by the three legged toad, 46cm high,

cf. a similar Kangxi blue and white yen-yen vase from the Franks collection in the British Museum painted with Daoist immortals, accession No. Franks.277.+. glaze losses to rim and edge of foot

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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.

The rim has several small areas of abrasion and glaze loss, the base has fritting and glaze losses around the edge, otherwise in good condition with no restoration, chips or cracks detected.