A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE GU-SHAPED VASE KANGXI, 1662-1722 青花兽...

Hammer

£150

A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE GU-SHAPED VASE
KANGXI, 1662-1722
青花兽面芭蕉纹花孤 清 康熙
painted in a rich cobalt blue in an archaistic style with 'taotie'-masks on a diaper-cell ground between whorl bands to the shallow barrel-shaped central section between leaf lappets to the spreading lower section and trumpet-shaped upper section
24.4cm and 23.4cm high

PROVENANCE: Bequest of William Rhinelander Stewart, 1929. Formerly in the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929-2024

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There is a visible rim break and an old repair with some fragments now detached (the seller has provided the pieces)