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PAIR OF MINIATURE BLUE & WHITE BEAKER VASES

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CATALOGUE NUMBERS 0210 & 0211

PAIR OF MINIATURE BLUE & WHITE BEAKER VASES

KANGXI PERIOD (1661-1722)

DIMENSIONS

Height: 5 inches

 

PROVENANCE

Guest & Gray, London, 1999

 

CATALOGUE NOTES

A pair of blue and white miniature vases, decorated with hunting scenes. Of slender beaker form, the lower register decorated with two figures on horseback, one carrying a spear and whip, the other a bow and arrows, hunting a hare with a dog running along by their side. The upper register with vases of flowers and birds all below a continuous scrolling border. The registers divided by a meandering border. The base with a very fine footrim is decorated with an artemisia leaf.

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