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Lot 32

A blue and white double-gourd vase
Chongzhen

10 November 2016, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £15,000 inc. premium

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A blue and white double-gourd vase

Chongzhen
The lower section painted in vivid blue with a continuous scene of an attendant holding a vase with three arrows before a dignitary followed by attendants carrying a parasol and fans, all beneath a leafy scroll dividing the upper section painted with a scholar and attendant carrying a zither, all beneath a further scroll of floral sprays.
33.5cm (13 1/4in) high

Footnotes

明崇禎 青花平升三級葫蘆瓶

Provenance: a German private collection, acquired from Bernheimer Gallery, Munich

來源:德國私人收藏,購自慕尼黑古董商Bernheimer Gallery

A blue and white brushpot, c.1635-1645, with similar decoration of a man carrying a vase with halberds is illustrated in Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, 1990, pl.42.

The scene depicts an attendant carrying a vase with three 'halberds' (ji 戟), which is a homophone for 'grade' (ji 級). The vase with three halberds, is a rebus for rising within the bureaucracy three grades (lian sheng san ji 連升三級), embodying the yearning of every scholar official in Imperial China.

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