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Sold Ceramics - Sold Blue and White Kangxi Period 1662-1722 - 'Long Eliza' Vases - Page 1
Object 201040
Baluster vase
China
c.1700
Height 162 mm (6.38 inch), diameter 79 mm (3.11 inch), diameter of mouthrim 36 mm (1.42 inch), diameter of footring 45 mm (1.77 inch)
Baluster shaped vase on footring with a flaring bulb neck. Decorated in underglaze blue with six moulded lotus petal shaped panels filled with a flowerpot on a stand alternating with two panels filled with a 'Long Eliza' figure. Marked on the base with the symbol mark: Artemisia leaf in underglaze blue. The baluster vase stands crooked due to the firing process.
Condition: A hairline to the rim, two tiny spots on its rim caused by popped bubbles of glaze during the firing process and two tiny firing flaws to the centre of the base.
References:
Jörg & Van Campen 1997, cat. 91
Price: Sold.
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