A LARGE CHINESE IMARI BALUSTER VASE AND COVER Early 18th century Painted and gilt with exotic birds perched on rockwork in a garden of flowering peonies, within floral lappet and ruyi collar borders, the cover with a gilt biscuit seated Buddhist lion finial. 55cm (21 5/8in) high. (2). Footnotes: Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 十八世紀早期 中國製伊萬裡式花鳥紋大蓋瓶 Provenance: Benjamin F. Edwards III, St Louis, Missouri and Naples, Florida Christie's New York, 22 January 2002, lot 8 Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2002, no.74 來源：美國密蘇里州聖路易斯和佛羅里達州那不勒斯Benjamin F. Edwards III舊藏 紐約佳士得，2002年1月22日，拍品編號8 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2002年，編號74 Benjamin F. Edwards III, was one of the largest collectors of Chinese Imari porcelain. He transformed A. G. Edwards, the St Louis brokerage house into the largest US brokerage company outside New York, with an equity capital of $1.6 billion by the end of his presidency of the company in 2001. A related Chinese Imari vase of similar proportions, circa 1700, is illustrated by J.Wirgin, Fran Kina till Europa, Stockholm, 1998, p.58, no.52. See also a similar vase and cover, circa 1725-1740, illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, vol.I, London, 2016, no.571. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com