A BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD HEXAGONAL VASE QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

painted on each facet with images of scholars, vessels, instruments, and flowers

Christie's New York, 29th March 1983, lot 92.

Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art: Selections from the Vanderbilt Museum and other Private Collections, Vanderbilt Museum, Centerport, New York, 1983, cat. no. 27.

With multiple corners and edges with small glaze losses either from bruising and flaking or from large pieces of kiln grit removed, or from large burst glaze bubbles. Also with iron spots and other firing imperfections.
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Similarly decorated to two pairs of blue and white double-gourd vases of this period and subject matter sold in our Amsterdam rooms, 13th November 2006, lot 43, and 14th November 2005, lot 74.