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A LARGE FAMILLE VERTE BALUSTER VASE AND COVER A similar baluster vase and cover with fgural and landscape panels, in the
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) collection of Augustus the Strong, now part of the Porcelain Collection,
The vase is decorated with rectangular, leaf, fan, ruyi and pomegranate- Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, in Dresden, acquired in May 1722 from the
shaped panels depicting various fgural scenes, including the Emperor Yao dealer Madame Bassetouche, is illustrated by Eva Ströber in La Maladie de
and his attendants meeting the ox herder Xu You; a scholar dreaming about Porcelaine, Leipzig, 2001, no. 26, pp. 66-67. Two others, from the collection of
meeting a monk and his attendant; a general standing in front of his tiger Dr. Leonard Gow, are illustrated by The Earl of Lytton, Sir William Llewellyn
skin-covered chair; a scholar and fsherman; and various panels depicting a and Laurence Binyon in the Catalogue of the International Exhibition of
tiger, a qilin and a bixie, as well as various panels with precious objects, fowers Chinese Art, 1935-1936, Royal Academy of Arts, London, no. 1817 & 1829,
and landscapes. The panels are reserved on a green ground decorated with
scattered fower heads. The domed cover is painted with three foral panels pl. 172, pp. 152-153. One of a pair is illustrated by R.L. Hobson C.B. in The
and has a fower bud fnial. Leonard Gow Collection of Chinese Porcelain, no. 146, colour pl. XXXI, p.
23¬ in. (60 cm.) high 42-43.
£10,000-15,000 $15,000-21,000
€12,000-17,000 清康熙 五彩人物故事圖蓋瓶

來源: 英國蘭開斯特公爵舊藏
PROVENANCE
From the collection of the Duke of Leinster.

244 Other fees apply in addition to the hammer price – see Section D of our Conditions of Sale at the back of this Catalogue