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TWO CHINESE VASES, signed, ceramics, 17th century

A pair of stately vases with elongated bellies tapering downwards. The wide necks were covered with domed lids topped with large pinnacles.

Decorated with a mosaic of piled up hexagons, reminiscent of a hexagonal arrangement of bee combs. They present city landscapes, floral compositions and selective architectural assumptions.

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12 000 zł tax incl.

The above pair of vases comes from the Hon Can ship that sank in 1690 off the coast of Vietnam. They were excavated in 1990-1991 and sold at Christie's Art House a year later. [source: Nyuen Dinh Chien, Ceramics of five shipwrecks off the coast of Viet Nam, Ha noi, 2008]

Signed.

China, 17th century

Ceramics.

Dimensions: 35cm (H) x 13cm (D)

Preservation condition: damage visible in the photos/ span>