Lot 145. A blue and white 'spirally-fluted' five-piece garniture, Kangxi period (1662-1722). The tallest 31.7cm (12 1/2in) high. Estimate £3,000 - 5,000. Sold for £ 20,000 (€ 22,974). © Bonhams

Comprising three baluster vases and covers and a pair of beaker vases, each with spirally-fluted midsection painted in deep, lustrous tones with leafy flowering vine, the domed covers moulded as overlapping petals and surmounted with lotus-bud finials.

Provenance: an English private collection and thence by descent.

Note: A.du Boulay illustrates a set of three very similar blue and white baluster vases and covers in Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1984, p.228. See also a similar garniture set, 1690-1700, illustrated by R.W.Fuchs II and D.S.Howard, Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur, Winterthur, 2005, pp.164-165, no.105. 

Bonhams. Fine Chinese Art, 08.11.2018