Lot 2369 , A Chinese blue and white garlic neck bottle, Kangxi period, 16cm, neck cut down

A Chinese blue and white garlic neck bottle, Kangxi period, 16cm, neck cut down

A Chinese blue and white garlic neck bottle, Kangxi period, 16cm, neck cut down 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.
£150-250

Condition:
Neck roughly cut down, as catalogued, clearly visible; hairline crack to glaze just below neck. Otherwise good.

Sold for £220