29th Jun, 2023 11:00

Asian Art Discoveries

 
Lot 325
 

325

A BLUE AND WHITE KANGXI PERIOD PORCELAIN BALUSTER VASE, VUNG TAO CARGO

Sold for €1,170

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Lot details

China, Kangxi period (1662-1721). The baluster shaped vase rising from a splayed foot to a short waisted neck, decorated in underglaze blue with flower blooms borne on leafy stems, the base with an artemisia leaf mark and an old Christies label (see provenance). With a domed cover painted similarly to the vase and surmounted by a bud-shaped finial.

Condition: With wear, minor firing irregularities and surface alteration consistent with objects from maritime salvage such as encrustations. The mouth rim with a forked hairline and the cover with a chip to the rim and a glaze flake to the finial.
Provenance: Austrian private collection, acquired at Galerie Zacke in 2006 for 2.303 EUR at the time, copies of an old invoice as well as an old Zacke catalogue page illustrating the piece will be handed to the winning bidder. The base with a collection label reading: Christie´s, VungTao Carg, LOT 604, the underside of the lid with collections numbers: HC90-S.381 and S.381.

Weight: 740 g
Dimensions: Height 24 cm

In 1989, a Vietnamese fisherman discovered the ‘Vung Tao Cargo’ on the Southern Coast of Vietnam. The salvaged contents were sold a Christie’s Amsterdam in a two-day sale of 1011 lots on 7th and 8th April 1992. There was little to date the wreck except a few coins of the reign of the emperor Kangxi (1662-1722) and an inkstick bearing the cyclical date corresponding to AD 1690. The best evidence lies in fact in the study of the porcelain itself that must have been produced within a decade of AD 1683, the year that ceramic historians regard as the official date of the re-opening of China's kilns at Jingdezhen after the Civil War that had disrupted the industry since the 1630s.

 

China, Kangxi period (1662-1721). The baluster shaped vase rising from a splayed foot to a short waisted neck, decorated in underglaze blue with flower blooms borne on leafy stems, the base with an artemisia leaf mark and an old Christies label (see provenance). With a domed cover painted similarly to the vase and surmounted by a bud-shaped finial.

Condition: With wear, minor firing irregularities and surface alteration consistent with objects from maritime salvage such as encrustations. The mouth rim with a forked hairline and the cover with a chip to the rim and a glaze flake to the finial.
Provenance: Austrian private collection, acquired at Galerie Zacke in 2006 for 2.303 EUR at the time, copies of an old invoice as well as an old Zacke catalogue page illustrating the piece will be handed to the winning bidder. The base with a collection label reading: Christie´s, VungTao Carg, LOT 604, the underside of the lid with collections numbers: HC90-S.381 and S.381.

Weight: 740 g
Dimensions: Height 24 cm

In 1989, a Vietnamese fisherman discovered the ‘Vung Tao Cargo’ on the Southern Coast of Vietnam. The salvaged contents were sold a Christie’s Amsterdam in a two-day sale of 1011 lots on 7th and 8th April 1992. There was little to date the wreck except a few coins of the reign of the emperor Kangxi (1662-1722) and an inkstick bearing the cyclical date corresponding to AD 1690. The best evidence lies in fact in the study of the porcelain itself that must have been produced within a decade of AD 1683, the year that ceramic historians regard as the official date of the re-opening of China's kilns at Jingdezhen after the Civil War that had disrupted the industry since the 1630s.

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