A yellow-ground Ming-style 'landscape' garlic-head pear-shaped vase
Kangxi Finely painted around the slender neck and globular body with a scene of boys at play in a fenced terrace against a background of 'master of the rocks' style craggy mountains, the scene interrupted by a hatched band at the neck, the bulbous head with floral sprays under the lipped rim, all set on a yellow enamel ground. 38.8cm (15 1/4in) high
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The shape of the present lot is more often found in Wanli production, both in wucai and in blue and white. However, the painting here more closely resembles 17th century 'master of the rocks' style wares and early Kangxi designs.The most famous example of this shape in the Wanli reign, an extremely large wucai 'dragon' garlic-head vase, Wanli mark and period, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of the Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 2007, pl. 28.