FOUR BLUE AND WHITE WARES
Kangxi
Comprising a rosewater sprinkler of pear shape and painted in bright deep cobalt blue with pendant ruyi-shaped panels with reserve-decorated floral scrolls to the body, beneath a chevron and semi-flowerhead band below upright plantain leaves to the neck, a gilt-metal mount with domed cover, flame finial and chain at the rim, a yu (jade) mark to the base; a small wine or tea bowl and saucer, each painted with four lotus petals each enclosing an elegant lady seated on a garden terrace, the petal-form cartouches reserved against a diaper ground, the base of the cup with an encircled lingzhi mark, the saucer with an encircled conch mark; and a miniature slender gourd-shaped vase with underglaze-blue decoration, the glaze pooling to one side and fading to white at the mouth rim, supported on a slightly concave biscuit foot. (4)
sprinkler: 5 3/4in (14.6cm) high
(cup and) saucer: 2 5/8in (6.7cm) diam
gourd vase: 2 5/8in (6.7cm) high
Footnotes:
清康熙 青花如意花卉紋香水瓶配後鑲金屬口 青花錦地開光仕女圖杯配碟 及藍釉葫蘆小瓶

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 cup and saucer of nearly identical design, see Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, Section 3, revised edition, London, 2004, p.77, no.B607a+b.
This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤
¤ Without reserve

Sprinkler: The gilt-metal mount, which may be contemporary with the vessel, is tightly secured to the neck and it is impossible to know if the neck rim is complete or not. Some wear and minor kiln imperfections but unobtrusive. Recommended.
Cup and saucer: The cup with small rim nibbles; the saucer with a small nibble.
Gourd vase: Generally, in good overall condition.