R9178
£28,000
Description
Chinese porcelain famille verte green ground bottle vase painted with yellow arrow vases on pedestal tables between pendant brocade balls and tassels tied with ribbons, the neck with flowering branches of prunus, all on a clear even pale green ground, divided by an iron-red lotus flower head band and beneath lotus petals and scrolls at the slightly flared lip, the base glazed white.
11 ¼ inches, 28.5 cm high.
Kangxi, circa 1700.
Condition
Excellent.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Formerly in an English collection.
- Included by Marchant in their exhibition of Chinese Ceramics from Tang to Qing, 2014, no. 34, pp. 68-69.
- Included by Marchant in their exhibition of Kangxi Famille Verte, 2017, no. 21, pp. 58-59.
- A similar example is illustrated by Von Walter Bondy in Kang-Hsi, no. 123.
- The shape and style of this bottle vase usually occurs in blue and white, an example is illustrated by Christiaan J.A. Jörg in Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, no. 103, p. 108; it is rare to find a famille verte example on a green ground.
Similar Items
16. M5299
£5,800Chinese famille verte, sancai, biscuit porcelain joss-stick holder modelled in the form of Budai seated beside a child holding a necklace above his raised right knee, their faces and his protruding stomach covered in a clear glaze all on a rug form base, the underside unglazed.
3 inches, 7.5 cm high.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.
39. M5334
£6,200Pair of Chinese famille verte biscuit porcelain standing parrots, each perched on yellow glazed pierced rockwork, their detailed, moulded bodies stippled at the breast with overlapping feathers and long tail feathers and covered in a rich apple-green glaze, the eyes inset with black enamel, the beak and detailed claws left in the biscuit.
7 inches, 17.9 cm high.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.
Wood stands.
M4201
Chinese porcelain famille verte rouleau vase with high shoulder, cylindrical neck and galleried rim, painted on the body in a continuous scene with Xi Wang-mu, The Queen Mother of the West, descending from the Jasper Pool in the clouds with six of her attendants, one holding the giant peach of immortality, others with flute, cymbals, a qin and peacock feather fan, beside her a phoenix bird in flight, approaching the Emperor who wears yellow robes of dragon design, in his palace with generals, dignitaries and attendants amongst rockwork, wutong, banana plant and cranes all beneath a gilt sun, the shoulder with precious object reserves on a geometric ground, the neck with three medallions of Fuxing, seated holding a hu tablet beside a stack of books on a yellow fu-character, Shoulao, in a peach between a crane and scrolls on a green shou-character, and Luxing, seated between a deer and wine jar on an aubergine lu-character beneath the galleried rim with green keyfrets, the base glazed white.
18 ½ inches, 47 cm high.
Kangxi, circa 1715.
