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Shunzhi
Each finely potted with a compressed bulbous body rising from a short foot to a tall cylindrical neck terminating with a garlic-head mouth with brown-painted rim, brightly decorated around the exteriors with birds and peonies and malachite-green magnolia emerging from underglaze-blue rocks, all below a band of scrolls, the neck and mouth similarly decorated with floral sprays, all reserved against an iron-red 'flower-petal' ground. Each, 34cm (13 1/4in) high. (2).
Footnotes
清順治 青花五彩花鳥紋蒜頭口荸薺扁瓶
Provenance: acquired from Valérie Levesque Art d'Asie, Paris, in 2007
來源:獲得于巴黎古董商 Valérie Levesque Art d'Asie,2007年
Compare with a similar wucai vase with design of magnolia and birds, Kangxi, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of the Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Shenzhen, 1999, p.135, no.123. See also a similarly shaped wucai vase, Shunzhi, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc.no.19.28.1).
The dense decoration of flowers on red ground, as found on the present lot is rare. See a jar with related decoration of flowers and rocks against a red diaper-pattern ground, Shunzhi, illustrated by T.Canepa and K.Butler, , London, 2021, p.345. The same jar is illustrated in , Alexandria, 1990, no.60, where the author notes that 'some pieces of this type were made for the Indian or Middle Eastern markets. Friedrich Volker asserts two red rolwagens were given to an Indian King in 1648'; see ., p.107.
Compare a related jar, Shunzhi, decorated with magnolia on diaper ground, which was sold at Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 471.