A BLUE AND WHITE ‘ANTIQUE TREASURES’ BOTTLE VASE, KANGXI PERIODInscriptions: To the neck, ‘As an apaniment on the table, clearing the air in the Qin studio’, and with two seals, ‘[…] quan’ and ‘Juanqing’.China, 1662-1722. Exceptionally well painted in neatly graduated shades of deep cobalt blue with precious objects including censers, a quadrilobed vase holding a coral branch and a peacock feather, a ruyi scepter, and a qin, as well as shaped panels enclosing landscapes. The slightly waisted neck further with a ruyi-head border. Thepressed globular body supported on a massive, spreading foot.Provenance: From an English private collection, and thence by descent within the family.Condition: Good conditionmensurate with age with minor wear and expected firing irregularities, including few dark spots and minute glaze recesses, a stabilized hairline and tiny old fills, the foot with few minuscule chips, minor crackling to base.Weight: 3,200 gDimensions: Height 42.7 cmThe base with an apocryphal underglaze-blue six-character markda Ming Jiajing nianzhi.Auction resultparison:Type: Closely relatedAuction: Christie’s New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1658Price: USD 35,000 or approx.EUR 43,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writingDescription: An unusual large blue and white bottle vase, Kangxi periodExpert remark:pare the closely related form and decoration. Note the near-identical size (45.7 cm).康熙時期青花博古紋長頸瓶中國，1662-1722年。青花描繪如意型開光博古紋，如香爐、花瓶、如意和琴等書房用品。長頸中央一道如意紋。 長頸，鼓腹，圈足外撇。款識：案頭堪作伴，琴堂氣欲清。鈴印：？泉，鎸清