M2722
£18,000
Description
A pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte cake stands, tazza, each painted on the saucer shape top with a basket of peony beside two stacks of books encircled by precious objects including scrolls and ruyi-sceptres each tied with ribbons, beneath a flowerhead band at the rim, the underside with three branches of prunus sprays in iron-red, all on a stem foot with a lotus petal, keyfret and jewelled band.
8 ¾ inches, 22.2 cm diameter.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.
Condition
Available on request.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Formerly in a West Dorset private collection.
- A Kangxi blue and white tazza painted with ladies from the collection of The Margraves and Grand Dukes of Baden is illustrated by David S. Howard in A Tale of Three Cities, Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong, 73, p. 70.
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