LARGE BLUE-WHITE PORCELAIN CONE VASE, YENYEN
China, Kangxi Style
Majestic in its proportions, the lower part in inverted trumpet, the middle part in jumping/knotting, the upper part also forming a trumpet opening upwards. Cobalt-blue decoration on the outside, structured in interlocking lozenges in the manner of the cells of a honeycomb. In their breasts are Dutch houses with cut-off sides along a canal, the other bank of which, with rocks and weeping willow, is visible in the foreground. Artemis leaf mark in cobalt blue underneath.
H: 63 cm - D (at the neck): 27,2 cm
Note: This very special setting is called "Canal Houses". Vessels of this type were found in a cargo ship that crashed off the coast of Vietnam, in the South China Sea, and was recovered in the early 1990s: the cargo ship Vung Tau.
Comparisons:
> For a complete period miniature set to the model, see inventory number 1992,0605.1-5 of the British Museum, London;
> For a complete set presented as period and of the same type, see Christie's Amsterdam, "The Vung Tau Cargo", 7-8/04/1992, lot 545.

A LARGE COBALT BLUE DECORATED 'CANAL HOUSES' BEAKER VASE, YENYEN
China, Kangxi style, A piece to be compared with those of the Vung Tau Cargo