A CLOBBERED COPPER-RED VASE
Lot 405PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

A CLOBBERED COPPER-RED VASE

KANGXI PERIOD

Fermé25 January 2010

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A CLOBBERED COPPER-RED VASE
KANGXI PERIOD
With Buddhist lions in underglaze red, later enameled in Europe with two figures in tunics (possibly Hercules) fighting the lions among flowering trees, a leaf tip border at mouth, the underside with a clobbered iron-red four-character mark
7½ in. (19.1 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 23 March 1995, lot 358.

Note du spécialiste

For a similarly decorated example in the British Museum, see Ayers, Impey and Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces, no. 183, p. 193.