A Chinese blue and white garlic neck vase, Chongzhen (1628-1644), the globular body painted with figures bathing an elephant in a river, accompanied by monks,…

A Chinese blue and white garlic neck vase, Chongzhen (1628-1644), the globular body painted with figures bathing an elephant in a river, accompanied by monks, rising to a tall, slender neck with a raised bulb to the mid-section, decorated with leafy sprays of stylised tulips (40cm high) Provenance: The Private Collection of Michael George Kuczynski (1941-2025), Cambridgeshire. Footnote: The present vase is decorated with the popular late Ming subject of 'Xixiang tu' (Bathing the Elephant). Deriv

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Vases

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Stansted Mountfitchet

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H 40 cm