Arts d'Asie

A blue and white octagonal double-gourd vase, Ming dynasty, late Tianqi / early Chongzhen period

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Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 EUR

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Description

wood box (2)

Height 21.8 cm, 8⅝ in.

Japanese Private Collection.

Compare a similar bottle vase, gifted by Mr Hirota Matsushige to the Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum. Chinese Ceramics II, Tokyo, 1990, pl. 239; and a related example, with the neck missing, exhibited in Ko-sometsuke & Shonzui, Marchant, London, 2024, cat. no. 49, where another related pair is mentioned, preserved in the Nezu Museum, Tokyo, published in Saito Kikutaro, Toji taikei / Complete Collection of Ceramics, vol. 44: Kosometsuke & Shonzui, Tokyo, 1972, pl. 118.

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