Rare Gu Shaped Chinese Porcelain Vase - Kangxi 康熙 Period ("Transitional")

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This store is where an old collector of Chinese paintings and porcelain offers for sale items that he finds interesting, beautiful and thought-provoking.
Each buyer is invited to use his/her judgment as to the probability of authenticity of the paintings - that is where the fun of collecting is
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This beautiful vase is painted
with eight
blue and white
panels featuring landscapes in a particularly animated and poetic free style
(daring "modernism" in composition, improvisation in brushwork
). The lightly saturated cobalt blue evokes the "Prussian Blue" familiar to painters in acrylics and oils, perfectly complementing the softness of the glaze to create a delicate "antique" impression, both to eye and touch.
"Transitional blue-and-white porcelains are skilfully potted and decorated in a lovely shade of deep blue that inspired the simile,
'like violets in milk'".
A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics
by Suzanne G. Valenstein, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
The shape evokes a Gu, a ritual bronze vessel from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. For comparison, googling together the key words Gu, blue and Kangxi will bring a lot of images of related porcelain works, of variable quality.
The base bears no reign mark except for a blue double circle - which could suggest it was made outside of any imperial kilns, probably during the Transitional Period (
1620-1683).
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n the glaze
, a few larger bubbles are scattered among tiny irregular sized ones.
- Very pale blue-green pooling of the glaze on the base.
- Quite a few burst oxidation spots at the base and on the inside of the vase, suggesting some difficulty controlling the firing.
Thickness: 2 to 3 mm
Rim diameter: 105 mm
Height: 217 mm
Base diameter: 75 mm
Pedestal Height: 40 mm
You are invited to look at the other works listed on this site. I offer a 5% discount on each of two items purchased at the same time, 10% on three items, etc. in 5% increments. Multiple purchases will also benefit from combined shipping - actual shipping cost instead of total of listed shipping charges.
Shipping Worldwide: , insurance included.
Returns accepted if sent up to one week after reception and the buyer pays both shipping charges.