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A Chinese sang-de-boeuf Vase, Guangzu mark and period (1821-50), of hu form and square section, the neck with arrow handles and all under a streaked and suffused red ground thinning through purple to stone at the edges, incised ta Qing Guangxu nian zhi, some scratching, 31cm, wood stand (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 Bronze Vase, probably Jiajing (1522-66), the well-cast elongated pear body with lotus between elephant head handles above swags of pearls and on three elephant head feet, the whole set with cabochons, most missing, 19.5cm Some of the stones may be emeralds, but the majority were probably smoky quartz. Similarly caparisoned elephants, which are of Buddhist significance, were frequent in the late Ming, taking the form of incense burners and porcelain kendhi. For a one of the former, see Chinese and Japanese Bronzes, A.D. 1100-1900, Michael Goedhuis, 1989, no 17.
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