Live Auction 2273The William F. Reilly Collection
Christie’s roundel
Lot 218

A CHINESE EXPORT BLUE AND WHITE FIVE-PIECE GARNITURE

KANGXI PERIOD

Closed14 October 2009

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A CHINESE EXPORT BLUE AND WHITE FIVE-PIECE GARNITURE
KANGXI PERIOD
Comprising a pair of open vases with trumpet-shaped mouths and a set of three vases with cylindrical covers, each of sextagonal form and decorated with shaped, blue-ground panels between borders of stiff upright leaf tips
12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm.) high (8)

The Estate of the late Giuseppe Rossi, Volume IV; Sotheby's, London, 10-12 March 1999, lot 1093.

Specialist note

This garniture formed part of the extensive collections assembled by the Turin dealer, Giuseppe Rossi. Born to a family of craftsmen, Rossi's collection of connoisseur's objects and furniture from the 17th through 19th centuries comprised over 1,400 lots when sold at his death in 1999.

Compare with a much smaller garniture from the Pullan Collection (only two of the bottles with covers) exhibited at Spink, 16-30 November 1998, and illustrated in the catalogue (no. 31).