A rare Chinese porcelain bottle vase, Kangxi period, painted in underglaze blue with a 'love chasing' scene, 15cm highNote: A similar love chasing vase is illustrated by Sir Harry Garner in ‘Oriental Blue and White’, London, 1973, pl. 69A. Garner described the bottle vase as depicting ‘of a man and woman hunting a hare, which for some reason is generally described as a “love chase”’, and going on to describe it as an example of ‘K’ang Hsi blue and white at its most glowing…’ (p.46). A further example may be found in the Frick Collection, see ‘The Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue, Volume VII, Porcelains’, Princeton University Press, 1974, p.30, inventory number 65.8.191

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