Each finely painted with four large rectangular panels, two depicting a dignitary and a warrior jousting on horseback observed by boys in a walled pavilion courtyard, alternating with ladies and boys strolling in a walled garden, each panel surrounded by borders of morning glory and placed above a horizontal band of floral roundels reserved on a 'cracked-ice' pattern ground, the lower section with descending cinquefoil reserve-decorated floral lappets alternating with triangular motifs, the latter repeated on the domed covers, on later giltwood stands with rocaille frieze and scrolled legs
39 in. (99 cm.) high, the vases
51 in. (129.5 cm.) high, overall

With Cohen & Cohen, London.
A Window on the Orient: A Distinguished Private Collection; Christie's, London, 4 November 2010, lot 225 (£109,250).

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The term 'soldier' or 'dragoon' was adopted in the early 18th century to describe this type of exceptionally large vase after Frederick Augustus I (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony, and King of Poland, an avid collector of Asian porcelain and a founder of the Meissen factory, traded a regiment of cavalrymen for a group of vases from the collection of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia in 1717. Among these were eighteen blue and white vases similar to the present lot. Very similar 'soldier' vases and covers are at Petworth House, West Sussex. Related 'soldier' vases, without covers and with waisted necks, are also known with this design, and garnitures may have been formed combining the two shapes.

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