A BLUE AND WHITE ‘SAGE AND ATTENDANT’ BEAKER VASE, GU, KANGXI PERIODChina, 1662-1722. Of cylindrical form with a flaring mouth and foot, the bulging middle section vibrantly painted with detached floral sprigs, leaves, and a beetle, below a river landscape scene with a sage and his attendant walking toward a bridge below towering trees and swirling clouds, and above a similar landscape scene with the same sage and attendant continuing their journey as well as a fisherman in a boat and a scholar seated on a rocky outcrop.Provenance: From a private collection in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, acquired in London during the 1990s.Condition: Good condition with some old wear and expected firing irregularities, a small chip to the rim, minor fritting to the rim and lower bowstring, drilled to base with associated glaze nibbles, the foot with a tiny chip. Small smoothened areas, possibly inherent to the manufacture. The vase slightly leaning. Overall presenting spectacularly well.Weight: 2,979 gDimensions: Height 43 cmThe base with an apocryphal underglaze-blue six-character markda Ming Chenghua nianzhi.Auction resultparison:Type: Closely relatedAuction: Christie’s Hong Kong, 11 June 2021, lot 3253Price: HKD 250,000 or approx.EUR 30,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writingDescription: A large blue and white ‘figural’ gu-form beaker vase, Kangxi periodExpert remark:pare the closely related form, subject, decoration, and manner of painting. Note the related size (44.5 cm) and empty double circle to base.Auction resultparison:Type: Closely relatedAuction: Sotheby’s New York, 19 March 2013, lot 138Price: USD 37,500 or approx.EUR 45,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writingDescription: A blue and white beaker vase (gu), Qing dynasty, Kangxi periodExpert remark:pare the closely related form, decoration, manner of painting, and apocryphal Chenghua reign mark. Note the related size (44.7 cm).康熙青花山水人物紋花觚中國，1662-1722年。撇口，口沿下收，鼓腹，圈足。腹部描繪花枝、葉子和小昆蟲。上下描繪聖人和他的侍從在山水景觀中，並可見一個漁夫在船上，一個學者坐在岩石露頭上。