M5655
£14,500
Description
Chinese porcelain famille verte biscuit teapot and cover in the form of bamboo branches in yellow, aubergine, lime green and sea green with birds and branches including camellia, aster, prunus, bamboo, lingzhi and fruit, between naturalistic bamboo handle and spout, the yellow ground flower-shape drop-in cover with bamboo knop and bamboo sprays.
3 5/8 inches, 9.2 cm high.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From the collection of R.H.R. Palmer, collection no. 234.
- Purchased from Mallet, London, February 1930 and recorded in the Palmer family leger.
- A similar teapot and cover with aubergine handle and spout was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Imperial Chinese Porcelain, Ceramics & Works of Art, 2013, no. 18, pp. 40/1.
- A similar example is illustrated by Walter Bondy in Kang-shi, p. 166; another is illustrated by R.L. Hobson in the catalogue of the Leonard Gow Collection of Chinese Porcelain, 1931, no. 272, pl. LXIX; another example from the Salting Collection is illustrated by the Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Ceramics in the Guide to the Later Chinese Porcelain Periods of K’ang Hsi, Yung Cheng and Ch’ien Lung, pl. 56c, pp. 44;83.
Condition
Excellent condition.