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3 avril 2020

A copper-red and underglaze blue-decorated celadon-ground beaker vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

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Lot 2143A copper-red and underglaze blue-decorated celadon-ground beaker vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 18 1/8 in. (46 cm.) highEstimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Price Realized USD 12,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2014. 

The trumpet-shaped neck, bulbous middle section, and spreading foot are decorated with shaped rectangular panels depicting immortals and figural landscape scenes executed in underglaze blue with faint copper-red details. The panels are surrounded by carved peony scroll covered in a celadon glaze of pale olive-green color.

Provenance: Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 1985.

Exhibited: Cincinnati, Ohio, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati Collects 5000 Years of Chinese Art, 28 February - 20 April 1997, no. 11.

Note: The god of Successful Examinations and Literature, Kuixing is generally depicted standing on a fish, tortoise or dragon, with one hand raised holding a pen and the other holding an ingot. In a reference to the two characters of his name, gui ('ghost'), and dou ('ladle' or 'dipper'), the god is represented as a demon or ghost. 

Compare the similar brush pot, also dated Kangxi period, but with the addition of copper red in the decoration, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Seventeenth-Century Blue and White and Copper-Red and Their Predecessors, S. Marchant & Son, London, 1997, no. 55.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 20 - 21 March 2014

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