A FLAMBE GLAZED PORCELAIN MEIPING VASE China, Qing...

A FLAMBE GLAZED PORCELAIN MEIPING VASE

China, Qing Dynasty, Most likely Kangxi period

Bearing three museum labels to the side.

H: 14,5 cm

Provenance:

> Private collection;

> Señor Jorge Casares, Buenos Aires, Argentina, a reputed ornithologist born in a wealthy landowning family, also a relative of the renowned Argentinian fiction author Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) and a fellow of W.H. Hudson (1921-1982), an Argentinian-borned British Naturalist and Ornithologist. He is praised to have donated his library to the Sociedad Ornitológica del Plata.

Exhibitions:

> Exposición de Arte de China y Japón, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1936, nr. 138 (with a reproduction in the exhibition catalog);

> Exposición de Arte Oriental organizada por la S.A.D.A.O. (Sociedad Amigos Del Arte Oriental), 1949, nr. 5 (according to label);

> Museo Nacional de Arte Oriental, Buenos Aires, Inauguración, 1966, nr. 72 (according to label).