China, 1662-1722. Of hexagonal baluster form and finely painted in gold around the body with a palace amid manifold calligraphies, the waisted neck with prunus, bamboo and orchids, all between various forms of bands, flanked by pairs of stylized dragon handles.
Condition: Good condition. Minor firing flaws to one handle and foot rim. Some wear to gilding. Single drilling to base. Provenance: From the collection of Georg Weifert (1850-1937). Thence by descent in the same family. Old collector inventory numbers and inscriptions painted in black ink to base. Weifert was a Serbo-Austrian industrialist and the first governor of the Federal Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.
Weight: 6.7 kg Dimensions: Height 53.2 cm
Literature comparison: Compare with a related pair of hexagonal powder blueglazed vases, 18th century, but with later European ormolu gilt-bronze mounts, illustrated by John Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol. II, London, 2016, p.561, nos.1358-1359.
Auction result comparison: Compare with a closely related pair of vases at Bonham’s London in Fine Chinese Art, 7 November 2019, lot 74, bought-in at GBP £10,000.