Beschreibung:

This heavily potted blue and white vase has a pear-shaped body leading to a tall slender and flared neck. One with a scene depicting scholars in a garden setting, is thought to be taken from the “ Literary Gathering in the Western Garden “ – painted with stylised tulips and Buddhistic emblems. There is a daisy pattern to the shoulder and a lappet decoration to the lower level of the body and above the foot rim. Height 21 cm. The other with a scene of a military officer baring a halberd – a spear-shaped weapon with a crescent blade to one side. There is a fortress to the rear of the landscape and a horse being equipped for battle in the foreground. Height: 21 cm
Purchased at ChristiesAmsterdam, May 2004. The Avalon Collection. This collection, which in the main focuses on the Interregnum and Kangxi periods has been both carefully and sensitively formed over the last twenty-five years. The collectorA member of the English Oriental Ceramic Society, has assembled the collection with an eye for provenance whilst purchasing from old European collections, well-established antique dealers and at auction. Academically, the pieces have been well researched both in terms of their symbolism and narrative themes. In many instances the imagery on the pieces has been referenced to episodes in the romantic and historic novels of Chinese mythology, which were used extensively in the decoration of seventeenth century Chinese porcelain.