SIX BLUE AND WHITE MINIATURE VASES
Kangxi
Comprising: a pair of soft paste vases decorated with scholar's objects, Chenghua marks; a quadrilobed floral vase; a pencil-drawn lotus vase, wood stand; and two 'Long Elizas' vases.
The largest 10cm (4in) high (7).
Footnotes:
清康熙 袖珍青花瓶 六件

Provenance:
The smallest vase: R.H.R. Palmer (1898-1970) collection no. 466 (label).
The pair: from the collection of Henry M. Knight (d. 1971)

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: The pair of vases: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, London, 2009, no.46

Henry M. Knight was a discerning collector who, from 1930 until his death in 1971, assembled a major collection of Chinese ceramics and works of art, focusing mainly on Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) porcelains, buying largely from Bluett & Sons, London. Roger Bluett wrote about him: 'Henry Knight, who built up perhaps the best collection of eighteenth-century porcelains in Europe as well as magnificent early pieces, was fond of telling how it was my late father who told him to buy 'Chinese taste' porcelains. Their time would come, my father used to say, and how right he was.'

General old wear. Some rim fritting.
The soft past vases - glaze crazing and one with small restored rim chip.