A rare large blue and white rouleau vase
KangxiBoldy and brightly painted around the cylindrical body with a continuous scene of scholars and attendants in a mountainous riverscape dotted with large pavilions, the neck with horizontal bands of ruyi-heads, key-fret border, trellis pattern, and swirl band. 76.5cm (30in) high.
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清康熙 青花山水人物圖大棒槌瓶Provenance: an English private collectionBonhams London, 12 May 2011, lot 293來源:英國私人收藏倫敦邦瀚斯,2011年5月12日,拍品編號293Compare with a blue and white rouleau vase, Kangxi, of similar massive size and form, and another of similar design, but smaller, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II), Hong Kong, 2000, pls.14 and 15. See also a similarly-painted large blue and white rouleau vase in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Wang Qingzheng, ed., in Underglaze Blue & Red, Hong Kong, 1987, pl.186.; another large blue and white rouleau vase in the Salting Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated by W.B.Honey, A Guide to the Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1927, pl.31. see also a further pair formerly in the Bahr collection, illustrated by A.W.Bahr, Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China, London, 1911, pl.LVIII.Compare with a related blue and white rouleau vase, Kangxi, which was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 June 2015, lot 3226.