Lot 645. A pair of underglaze-blue-decorated blue-glazed 'floral' bottle vases, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 5 1/2  in, 14 cm. Estimate 10,000 — 15,000 USD. Lot sold 12,500 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

each with the compressed globular body rising from a slightly splayed foot, sweeping to a columnar neck encircled by a raised filet and gently flaring at the rim, the body freely painted with sprays of flowers and butterflies in underglaze blue, all under a translucent blue glaze, the interior and base glazed white (2).

Provenance: Marchant, London, November 2004.

Literature: Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal, 2015, pls 163-164.

Note: Compare a related vase sold in these rooms, 20th March 2019, lot 763, with a slightly more globular body and decorated with chilong.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, 11 september 2019