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Lot 103

A BLUE AND WHITE 'BUDDHIST LIONS' BALUSTER VASE
Kangxi

16 May 2024, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £8,320 inc. premium

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'BUDDHIST LIONS' BALUSTER VASE

Kangxi
Thickly potted and boldly painted in vibrant tones of cobalt-blue around the exterior with three playful Buddhist lions with curly manes cavorting with ribboned balls, a ruyi head band at the collar and a leiwen pattern at the rim.
45cm (17 3/4in) high.

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Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

清康熙 青花獅子戲繡球紋瓶

Provenance: Christie's London, 9 May 1994, lot 62
An important European private collection

來源:倫敦佳士得,1994年5月9日,拍品編號62
歐洲重要私人收藏

The auspicious depiction of lions playing with embroidered balls is a popular decorative motif. See a related blue and white 'Buddhist lion' bowl with similar decoration, Jiajing mark but Kangxi period, in the Palace Museum Beijing (ac.no:新00114853).

Compare with a related blue and white 'Buddhist lion' vase of different form but with similar decoration, Kangxi, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 17 March 2021, lot 280.

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