A BLUE AND WHITE VASE AND A TEA BOWL AND SAUCER
Kangxi
Comprising a small vase with an ovoid body with six lightly molded lotus-petal panels, each painted in reserve with two stylized lotus flowerheads on upright scrolling stems, all above a spreading foot with narrow lappets and below a trumpet neck with a single molded bowstring and upright leaf lappets, a chevron band to the interior neck; and a hexagonal tea bowl and saucer, each sharing the same unusual penciled border and curling scroll hooks, the tea bowl with the addition of two bird panels to the sides. (3)
vase: 6 1/2in (16.5cm) high
saucer: 4 1/4in (10.8cm) wide
Footnotes:
清康熙 青花花卉紋撇口樽 及青花開光瑞鳥紋六棱杯配碟

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

Provenance:
Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York
Purchase by subscription, 1879
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present

來源：
Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904)，紐約
會費購藏，1879 年
大都會藝術博物館，1879 年迄今

For a ewer and basin decorated in a similar fashion to our small vase with reserve-decorated floral scrolls, see Regina Krahl, John Ayers and Nurdan Erbahar, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, A Complete Catalogue, III, Qing Dynasty Porcelains, London, 1986, p.916, nos.2149-2150.
This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤
¤ Without reserve

PLEASE NOTE: This report describes, but may not be limited to, major condition issues for the lot.

Vase: Generally, in excellent overall condition save for a few minute air-bubble pinpricks to the rim and foot but mostly unobtrusive.
Cup Generally, in good overall condition save for a small original kiln glaze-pull and minor pinprick bubbles above the foot.
Saucer: A few minute air-bubble pinpricks to the rim edge and small surface bubbles to the interior center.