Olivia Xu
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Lot 41*
A RARE WUCAI ROULEAU VASE Shunzhi
3 November 2022, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £10,200 inc. premium
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Edward Luper
Specialist, Chinese Works of Art
A RARE WUCAI ROULEAU VASE
Shunzhi
The tall cylindrical vessel vibrantly decorated around the exterior with craggy rocks issuing dense chrysanthemum and peony, two birds in flight, all against a red petal-pattern ground and between floral patterned borders, the waisted neck with floral sprays. 39.5cm (15 1/2in) high.
The tall cylindrical vessel vibrantly decorated around the exterior with craggy rocks issuing dense chrysanthemum and peony, two birds in flight, all against a red petal-pattern ground and between floral patterned borders, the waisted neck with floral sprays. 39.5cm (15 1/2in) high.
Footnotes
清順治 五彩花鳥棒槌瓶
Provenance: Priestly & Ferraro Chinese Art, London, 10 July 2006
來源：倫敦古董商Priestly & Ferraro Chinese Art，2006年7月10日
The dense decoration of flowers on red ground, as found on the present lot is rare. See a jar with related decoration of flowers and rocks against a red diaper-pattern ground, Shunzhi, illustrated by T.Canepa and K.Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate: The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p.345. The same jar is illustrated in Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, 1990, no.60, where the author notes that 'some pieces of this type were made for the Indian or Middle Eastern markets. Friedrich Volker asserts two red rolwagens were given to an Indian King in 1648'; see ibid., p.107.
According to T.Volker in Porcelain and the Dutch East India Company: As Recorded in the Dagh Registers of Batavia Castle, Those of Hirado and Deshima and other Contemporary Papers, Leiden, 1971, p.105, in 1649 the Dutch wrote to Batavia on 31 May 'that they intend to present the King [of Surat] with...2 large red rolwagens with leaf work in relief and flowers...' The present lot, also with a predominately red tone, could therefore, have been made for the Indian or Middle Eastern market.
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