M3480
Description
Pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai octagonal vases, painted on each facet with blue enamel, iron-red, aubergine and yellow lotus flowerheads amongst scrolling foliage on a white ground, framed with an aubergine-glazed border, the shoulders with precious objects on different diaper grounds beneath further lotus flowerheads and foliage on the octagonal flared neck, the base unglazed.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.
One 16 ⅛ inches, 41 cm high; the other 15 ⅞ inches, 40.5 cm high.
Condition
Both with tiny rim nibbles and natural fire flaws.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Formerly in an important Italian private collection.
- Published by Marchant in their exhibition of Qing Porcelain from Private Collections, 2015, no. 17, pp. 36/7.
- A very similar pair of famille verte, wucai, octagonal vases, with flowers rather than precious objects on the shoulders, are in the collection of the National Trust at Polesden Lacey, Surrey, collection number NT 1245662. A pair of vases of identical size decorated with flowers, birds and insects, the Property of Monsieur and Madame Sylvain L. Goldmuntz, previously from the Pinna Collection, was sold by Sotheby’s Monaco in their auction of Belle Collection de Porcelaines de Chine, 4th March 1990, lot 355; another is illustrated by R. L. Hobson in Chinese Porcelain and Wedgwood Pottery, with other Works of Ceramic Art, A Record of the Collection in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight formed by The First Viscount Leverhulme, no. 421, pl. 52, p. 68.
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