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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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A FAMILLE VERTE QUATREFOIL ᪺༒ᶑ ̪ྑ⩈㲄♄ᩅᚻམ⩈↞ Վಧ᜷ᕋ៹ᢎ
JARDINIERE
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KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722) 㲞ᳰצ೥ᇑ卿 ჺ ᝲ ᚚ卿ᐽ৅ ⽚
The jardiniere is potted with eight bracket-lobed sides, rising from
four ruyi-shaped feet to a flat everted mouth rim of conforming
shape. The exterior is delicately painted in the famille verte palette
depicting four tree shrubs bearing multi-coloured flowers. The
lobed rim is similarly decorated with lingzhi and leaves. The base is
pierced with a hole.
14º in. (36 cm.) wide, box
HK$800,000-1,500,000 US$110,000-200,000
PROVENANCE
Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2012, lot 4101
There are a number of facetted jardinières with Kangxi marks
decorated in overglaze enamels or cobalt blue in museums. The
subject matter varies from birds and flowers, such as a wucai jardinière
decorated in similar style illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and
Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 104, pl. 95; to figural, such as a
doucai jardinière depicting the Three Star Gods in a landscape in the
Nanjing Museum, illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty: The Official
Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, pp. 94-95;
as well as landscapes, as seen on a blue and white jardinière painted
with landscape scenes on each of the sides in the Palace Museum,
Beijing, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red
(III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong
Kong, 2000, p. 67, pl. 58.

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