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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'SOLDIER' VASE QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD清康熙 青花穿花螭龍紋撇口大瓶of tall tapered baluster shape, with rounded shoulders sweeping to a waisted neck and a flaring rim, richly painted to the exterior in vivid tones of blue with a central band of writhing chilong traversing amidst lingzhi in reserve on a blue ground, between bands of lotus scrollwork with a border of upright plantain leaves at the neck and stylised scrolling lotuses around the footHeight 92 cm, 36? in. Grand and powerful, this vase is notable for its large size and dynamic design, which required great technical skills during all stages of the manufacturing process. Monumental jars and vases of this type are often referred to as soldier or dragoon vases after an event in 1717, when Augustus the Strong (1670-1733), King of Poland and Elector of Saxony and inveterate porcelain collector, traded a regiment of 600 soldiers for a group of porcelain including several blue and white Kangxi period vases of this monumental size. Those vases came from the collection of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia and had been housed within his own porcelain collection at Schloss Oranienburg. A set of seven, formerly in the collection of Augustus the Strong and now in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, is illustrated in China. Japan. Meissen. The Dresden Porcelain Collection, Dresden, 2006, p. 6; a related pair of vases in the collection of Her Majesty The Queen, is illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol. 1, London, 2016, pls. 352 and 353; a similarly large vase in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 114.