A CARVED CELADON-GLAZED BEAKER VASE QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

the cylindrical vessel with a bulbous mid-section rising to a wide, flaring rim, all raised on a splayed base, well carved with three registers of decoration, the neck with a continuous landscape depicting a small fishing boat on placid water amid tall, rocky peaks and leafing trees, a similar scene encircling the base, divided by a frieze of striding chilong encircling the convex waist, covered overall in a rich sea-green glaze pooling within the recesses, the base white-glazed and with an apocryphal six-character underglaze blue Chenghua mark, coll. no. 65

Sotheby's London, 13th-14th November 1972, lot 143.
Arts of Asia Gallery, Gray's Antiques, London, 1998.

The exterior footrim with restoration to a flake chip, the interior rim with an iron spot.
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