Lot 637. Property from a European Private Collection. A rare blue and white lobed jar for the Portuguese market, China, Ming dynasty, firt half of 17th century. Height: 12.9 cm. Price Realised EUR 6,300 (Estimate EUR 800 - EUR 1,200). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025

Provenance: With Jorge Welsh, according to label.

Note: he present lot can be compared with the blue and white jar with cherub masks, grapes and floral decoration sold at Christie's London, 11 July 2006, lot 174. A closely-related blue and white jar dated to circa 1610-1630 in the British Museum, London, is illustrated by J.Harrison-Hall in Ming Ceramics, London, 2001, p.376, cat no.12:61. Harrison-Hall writes that it made have been made on order for the Portuguese Jesuits.

Lot 633. Property from a European Private Collection. Two rare blue and white barrel-form 'figural' jars and covers, China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722), one with apocryphal Jiajing mark. Height: 23.3 cm and 23.5 cm. Price Realised EUR 9,450 (Estimate EUR 5,000 - EUR 8,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

Provenance: With Salomon Stodel Antiquites, Amsterdam, 17 October 2003.

Lot 638. Property from a European Private Collection. A pair of Export blue and white tankards and covers, the porcelain, China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722), the metal mounts later added. Height: 15.5 cm and 17 cm. Price Realised EUR 1,512 (Estimate EUR 800 - EUR 1,200). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025

Provenance: With S. Marchant, London, 13 June 2004.

Lot 639. Property from a European Private Collection. A set of blue and white hexagonal jars, three with covers, China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height: 15.5 cm and 17 cm. Price Realised EUR 3,276 (Estimate EUR 2,000 - EUR 1,200). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025

Provenance: Two jars: J.F. Wood Thorpe Collection (according to label).
With Spink & Son, London (according to label).

Note: An almost identical set of five vases, three with covers, was exhibited and published in Chinese Blue and White from the Pullen Collection, Spink & Son, London, November 1998, p. 26, no. 31.

Lot 642. Property from a European Private Collection. Two Export blue and white double-spouted cruets, the porcelain, China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height: 20 cm. Price Realised EUR 4,032 (Estimate EUR 3,000 - EUR 5,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025

Provenance: With S. Marchant, London, 13 June 2004.

Note: The present lot may be compared to a single blue and white double-spouted cruet sold at Sotheby's London, 18 May 2018, lot 542; and another pair sold by Christie's New York, 9 February 2016, lot 317.

Lot 643. Property from a European Private Collection. Three blue and white 'floral' jarlets with covers and one salt cellar, the porcelain, China, Qing dynasty, 18th-19th century, the metal mounts later added. Height of the jarlet: 5.3 cm; Length of the cellar: 8.6 cm. Price Realised EUR 504 (Estimate EUR 600 - EUR 800). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025

Christie's. Art of Asia, Paris, 3-13 June 2025