No reserve price! Chinese porcelain vase bamboo décor –China- Transitional period 17th Century On offer is a 17th Century Chinese porcelain vase with a painted decoration all around with bamboo-grasses issuing from rockwork. The neck has stylized upright standing banana leaves. It has an ochre colored rim (Jia Mangkou). This is not a shipwreck vase. It is an early example of a cabinet vases or étagère vase. In the later 17th and early 18th Century these small vases were highly collectable and very popular with the well-to-do bourgeoisie. These vases were put on wall shelfs and into cabinets. Later in the Kangxi period, the smaller ones were put in dolls houses by wealthy ladies. Provenance: From the private collection of a deceased collector from North Holland. Note; In a landmark 1984 sale in Amsterdam, Christie's offered Chinese porcelain from a 1640s shipwreck salvaged by the then-unknown Captain Michael Hatcher. Among its cargo similar vases have been found. Date: Transition period; Chongzhen 1627-1644 ca. 1640. Size: This vase stands ca. 12cm in height. Condition: Good, with only a small rim chip (3 mm) and miniature fleabite (). Will be packed very well and shipped with registered track/trace with insurance. Combined shipping possible, we return postage costs.