Lot 156 , A Chinese blue and white ‘birds and blossom’ baluster vase, Kangxi period

A Chinese blue and white ‘birds and blossom’ baluster vase, Kangxi period, painted with a continuous scene of birds amid flowers, blossoming trees and rockwork, double circle to base, 33cm high, hongmu wood stand and remnants of a wood cover
£2,000-3,000

Condition:
Provenance - UK private collection, 1920s or earlier, thence by family descent. This collection of late Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain and bronze vessels has been owned by a single Cotswold family for a number of generations dating back to the 1920s or earlier. The collection was formerly on display at the family home in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, UK before the house was sold in the 1980s. Some interior photos taken c.1982 show a number of the pieces on display in the family house and an inventory undertaken in 1948 by the local Campden auctioneer and valuer Alfred Bower lists many of the items. Extracts of the 1948 inventory are included where they correspond to the relevant lots in the sale. Typical minor glaze imperfections and some scratching to the glaze, some slight browning to the glaze around the edge of the base, some grubbiness to the unglazed rim and foot, otherwise in good condition with no restoration, chips or cracks detected.

Sold for £4,400