A blue and white soft-paste baluster vase. 18th century

Modelled with a short neck above sides gently tapering to a recessed base, the sides moulded with two quatrefoil panels, one enclosing a painting of a scholar riding a carp against turbulent waves, the other with the goddess Magu navigating her way across the waters, all against a fish-roe pattern ground with moulded floral sprays in reserve, with a band of flower heads at the rim. 29.7cm (11¾in) high.- Estimate: £4,000 - 6,000 - Unsold.

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Footnote: For a similar vase see J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, Chinese Ceramics IV, pl.A552; and W.E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain II, fig.889, for a comparable vase in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Bonhams. Fine Chinese Art, 6 Nov 2008. New Bond Street - www.bonhams.com