A FIVE-PIECE BLUE AND WHITE GARNITURE Kangxi
A FIVE-PIECE BLUE AND WHITE GARNITURE
Kangxi
Comprising: three baluster vases and covers and two inverted baluster vases with flaring necks, all moulded, decorated with panels depicting landscape scenes and flower bouquets against a cracked ice ground, the covers and flaring necks with panels of boys in fenced gardens. 29cm (11 3/8in) high. (8).
清康熙 青花瓶及蓋瓶 五件
Provenance:
Collection of Sir Henry Thompson (1820-1904) prior to 1878 (label)
Christie, Manson & Woods, Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain, Formed with Great Taste and Judgement by Sir Henry Thompson, 1-2 June 1880, lots 315 and 316.
Collection of Murray Marks (1840-1918), acquired from the above for 22 pounds 12 shillings and 5 pounds 10 shillings respectively.
Kirtlington Park after 1922
Published:
Thompson and Whistler, A Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain Forming the Collection of Sir Henry Thompson, London, 1878, p. 44, cat. no. 228.
Sir Henry Thompson 1st Baronet, FRCS (1820-1904) was a noted surgeon whose patients included Napoleon III of France. He also turned his hand to astronomy, writing and painting. His collection of Chinese porcelain was illustrated by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), one of the most prominent artists of the Aesthetic Movement. Murray Marks (1840-1918) who acquired the set for a prodigious sum was a major dealer in Chinese porcelain selling works to Rossetti, Whistler, Frederick Leyland, Louis Huth and Sir Henry Thompson who together developed the fashion for Chinese Kangxi blue and white porcelain through depictions in their paintings. Documented Kangxi pieces from this period rarely appear on the market.
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A FIVE-PIECE BLUE AND WHITE GARNITURE
Kangxi
Comprising: three baluster vases and covers and two inverted baluster vases with flaring necks, all moulded, decorated with panels depicting landscape scenes and flower bouquets against a cracked ice ground, the covers and flaring necks with panels of boys in fenced gardens. 29cm (11 3/8in) high. (8).
清康熙 青花瓶及蓋瓶 五件
Provenance:
Collection of Sir Henry Thompson (1820-1904) prior to 1878 (label)
Christie, Manson & Woods, Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain, Formed with Great Taste and Judgement by Sir Henry Thompson, 1-2 June 1880, lots 315 and 316.
Collection of Murray Marks (1840-1918), acquired from the above for 22 pounds 12 shillings and 5 pounds 10 shillings respectively.
Kirtlington Park after 1922
Published:
Thompson and Whistler, A Catalogue of Blue and White Nankin Porcelain Forming the Collection of Sir Henry Thompson, London, 1878, p. 44, cat. no. 228.
Sir Henry Thompson 1st Baronet, FRCS (1820-1904) was a noted surgeon whose patients included Napoleon III of France. He also turned his hand to astronomy, writing and painting. His collection of Chinese porcelain was illustrated by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), one of the most prominent artists of the Aesthetic Movement. Murray Marks (1840-1918) who acquired the set for a prodigious sum was a major dealer in Chinese porcelain selling works to Rossetti, Whistler, Frederick Leyland, Louis Huth and Sir Henry Thompson who together developed the fashion for Chinese Kangxi blue and white porcelain through depictions in their paintings. Documented Kangxi pieces from this period rarely appear on the market.
