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†A large pair of Chinese blue and white beaker vases, Kangxi 1662-1722. Each brightly painted in cobalt blue with three panels containing small birds amidst flowering shrubs growing from rockwork, divided by cash-diaper, one with good restoration to the neck, 39cm. (2) Sold on behalf of Axa Art Insurance Services.
A Chinese blue and white plate, six character Kangxi mark and of the period 1662-1722. Painted with figures in a domestic setting, and a blue and white bowl, six character Chenghua mark but 17th century, decorated with small figures in extensive rocky landscapes, minor faults, 20.5cm max. (2)
A COLLECTION OF CHINESE 17TH CENTURY BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN Europe saw three periods of `Chinamania` between the 17th and 20th centuries. The first in the early 17th with the kraak wares, the second with chinoiserie from the mid-18th century until the early 19th, , and again when the aesthetes went china crazy in the last decades of the century. Collectors vied for the best pieces - almost invariably Kangxi (1662-1722) blue and white, the best of sapphire-blue tone driving up prices only to see the craze vanish as quickly as it had begun. One devotee was the American painter James MacNeil Whistler who illustrated some of the pieces in the collection of Sir Henry Thompson (1878). One of the present lots no.145 is closely akin to no.203 in that Catalogue. Although modest, this offering is typical of a forgotten era. A double-gourd Vase, c.1640, trekked and washed with a literatus reading in a garden, a boy approaching, the upper bulb with stiff leaves, rim frits, 20.5cm A vase of similar form and decoration and the same size was raised by Captain Hatcher from the junk dated 1643, see The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes,1988, pl. 61.
A Chinese blue and white Bowl and Cover Kangxi c.1690, the bun body and domed cover with panels of flowering shrubs, the handles replaced in silver (probably c.1790) knop frits, 19cm diam. 13cm high Fragmentory inventory, probably c.1900, listed as Number 3 Blue and White Bowl with Cover bought at Linden Sale in 1861.

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