Qing Style Blue-and-White Porcelain Square Vase with Figural Panels清代风格青花人物方瓶
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Let’s take a look at this Qing Style Blue-and-White Porcelain Square Vase with Figural Panels. It’s a tall, architectural form: square section, straight sides, and a flaring trumpet mouth, each broad face staged like a little theater of blue-and-white storytelling.
The scenes belong to the visual world of the Kangxi era—scholars strolling terraces on one side, armored soldiers mustering beneath banners on the other. Add to that the neatly written four-character Kangxi reign mark on the base and the intent is clear: this wants to be a 17th‑century classic.
But the materials tell a subtler story. The porcelain body is very white and even, the glaze silky and uniform. The cobalt is smooth and flat in tone, lacking the speckled “heaped and piled” quality connoisseurs love in true Kangxi wares. The foot and recessed mark-panel are sharply cut, almost machine-perfect.
Condition is very good—just a little wear at the base and firing dust—again, more suggestive of a modern workshop than three centuries of handling.
Putting this together, I’d place authenticity at about 20%. It’s a modern homage rather than a period survivor, but still a handsome decorative vase. At auction, a genuine Kangxi version could reach $8,000–15,000; as a modern reproduction, a more realistic estimate is $200–400. A fine reminder that in Chinese porcelain, style often travels much further than time.
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Item Report
Qing Style Blue-and-White Porcelain Square Vase with Figural Panels
Materials:Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration
Age:Modern production, likely late 20th–early 21st century (circa 1980–2010)
Condition:Very good (minor base wear and firing imperfections; no evident major chips, cracks or repairs)
Value:If by some chance authentic Kangxi period: US $8,000–15,000 at auction; as a modern Kangxi-style reproduction (most likely): US $200–400
Maker's Marks / Writing:Underglaze blue four-character reign mark in kaishu: 大清康熙年制 (Made in the Kangxi period of the Great Qing).
Date:2025-12-16 12:39:29.076395
Description:
Tall square-section porcelain vase with flaring trumpet neck, each main side painted in underglaze cobalt blue with narrative figural scenes: scholars and attendants in a garden terrace on one side, military figures with banners and drums on the reverse. The shoulders and neck are left largely white with sparse bamboo sprays, emphasizing the crisp rectangular body. The base bears a recessed foot with a four-character underglaze-blue reign mark reading “大清康熙年制” (Made in the Kangxi period of the Great Qing).
本件为高身方形瓷瓶，直壁方腹，上承喇叭形口，通体施白釉，以青花绘饰。两面主体为叙事人物画，一面为庭院楼阁中的文人仕女，另一面为军阵场景，人物衣纹以淡描线条和浓淡相间的青料晕染表现。瓶颈较为素净，仅点缀数枝青花竹叶，使方正瓶身更为醒目。底部方形凹池内书青花“大清康熙年制”四字款。
Curator Questions
Curated by Jade
Assessment:
This is a well-painted but clearly modern Qing Kangxi-style blue-and-white square vase. The squared form, figural terrace scenes, and cobalt palette imitate late 17th–early 18th century Jingdezhen wares, and the recessed base carries a four-character “Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi” mark. However, several features point to recent manufacture: the porcelain body and glaze are very even and bright, without the typical bubbles, kiln grit, or subtle warping associated with genuine Kangxi work; the cobalt is too uniform and lacks the characteristic ‘heaped and piled’ speckling; the drawing of faces and drapery feels graphic and modern rather than fluid and spontaneous; and the foot and interior of the recess show machine-like regularity. The neatly centered and clean reign mark is also typical of 20th-century apocryphal marks. A word about fakes.. Qing-mark-and-period blue-and-white vases are heavily forged, and most pieces with perfect condition and sharp, bright white bodies are modern reproductions rather than 17th‑century originals. As a decorative Kangxi-style vase this is attractive and collectible, but it should not be considered an imperial-period work. - this is Jade signing off! My red seal stamp goes CHOP!
此件为仿清康熙风格的青花方瓶，造型、画意和款识都在向十七世纪末至十八世纪初景德镇瓷器致敬。方形瓶身、庭院人物与营帐武将画面以及青花发色，均模仿康熙晚期青花器的风格，底部凹池内书“大清康熙年制”四字青花款。然而，从多方面可见其为近现代产品：胎质和釉面十分均匀洁白，缺少康熙瓷常见的气泡、窑砂和轻微变形；青花色泽单一，缺乏传统“积墨”般的斑点与层次；人物面部及衣纹线条略显刻板、图案化，而非清早期那种流畅生动的笔致；圈足及凹池边缘规整工整，带有机械加工的印象。款识端正工整，也更符合二十世纪以后常见的仿款特征。A word about fakes.. 清代名款青花器仿品极多，尤其是保存完好、色地明亮的器物，大多为近现代仿制而非十七世纪真品。本器作为装饰性康熙风格瓷瓶，观赏性不错，亦有一定收藏价值，但不宜视作康熙朝官窑旧物。 - this is Jade signing off! My red seal stamp goes CHOP!
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Provenance:
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Condition:
Very good (minor base wear and firing imperfections; no evident major chips, cracks or repairs)
Identification Score: 93%
Form, decoration and reign mark clearly place this as a Kangxi-style Chinese blue-and-white square vase; only minor uncertainty about exact production decade.
器形、纹饰及“大清康熙年制”款明确表明其为康熙风格青花方瓶，对具体烧造年代略有不确定，但类别判断相当明确，因此给出约93%的识别可信度。
Authenticity Score: 20%
The bright, uniform glaze, modern-looking cobalt, crisp machining of the foot, and clean apocryphal Kangxi mark strongly indicate a late 20th–21st century reproduction rather than a 17th–18th century period piece.
釉面洁白均匀、青料色泽单一偏现代、圈足规整如机修，以及款识工整清晰等特征，均指向二十世纪末至二十一世纪的仿制品，而非十七至十八世纪康熙朝原作，因此真品可能性仅评约20%。
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Keywords
Chinese, Qing style, Kangxi style, blue and white porcelain, square vase, figural decoration, apocryphal reign mark, modern reproduction
中国, 清代风格, 康熙风格, 青花瓷, 方瓶, 人物纹, 仿款, 现代仿品
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