A PAIR OF UNDERGLAZE BLUE, COPPER-RED, AND CELADON-GLAZED BEAKER VASES QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

each modeled in the form of archaic gu vases, painted to the exterior with the Eight Horses of Mu Wang galloping, grazing, and lounging amid tall pines, the horses’ coats variously decorated in underglaze blue, underglaze red, and white slip, all reserved against a celadon-green glazed ground, the interior white, the base with a double circle in underglaze blue (2), coll. nos 190 & 191

The Asian Gallery, London, 1999.

One vase with a small restored chip to the rim. The other with a V-section of restoration to the rim; perhaps a chip with associated hairline crack and with consolidation to the lute line above the bulbed section.
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