STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
Property from the Collection of Kathleen and Martin Field
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October 21, 05:19 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 2,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of Kathleen and Martin Field
A LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ROULEAU VASE, NOW MOUNTED AS A LAMP, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
the tall slightly rounded sides rising to an angled shoulder, columnar neck, and galleried rim, the body painted in bright cobalt tones with a narrative scene set outdoors with a supplicant kneeling before a scholar-official seated in a canopied wheeled sedan accompanied by two attendants and a warrior lifting a long polearm and preparing to charge at an opposing warrior advancing on horseback, a curtain in the background emphasizing the theatricality, the shoulder with shaped cartouches enclosing peony sprigs reserved against a diaper ground, bands of dots, crenulation, and chevrons at the neck and rim, now drilled and fitted for electricity
height of vase 17 ⅝ in.
44.8 cm
Rare Art Inc., New York, 1984