A blue and white 'spirally-fluted' five-piece garniture


KangxiComprising three baluster vases and covers and a pair of beaker vases, each with spirally-fluted midsection painted in deep, lustrous tones with leafy flowering vine, the domed covers moulded as overlapping petals and surmounted with lotus-bud finials. The tallest 31.7cm (12 1/2in) high. (8).
|清康熙 青花纏枝花卉紋五供Provenance: an English private collection and thence by descent來源： 英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今A.du Boulay illustrates a set of three very similar blue and white baluster vases and covers in Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1984, p.228. See also a similar garniture set, 1690-1700, illustrated by R.W.Fuchs II and D.S.Howard, Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur, Winterthur, 2005, pp.164-165, no.105.