Page 216 - Bonhams May 16, 2019 London Asian Art

The Property of a Lady 女士藏品
Lots 244 - 251
244
A FAMILLE VERTE FOUNTAIN,
COVER AND BASIN
Kangxi
The pear-shaped flat-backed fountain moulded
with double-dolphin cresting and a mask boss
issuing a brass tap on the front; the oval basin
with fluted well and scalloped rim enamelled
with birds on long blossoming branches
beneath fish cartouches at the rim; the
domed and lobed cover similarly decorated.
The fountain 37cm (14½in) high, the basin
36cm (14¼in) wide. (3).

£10,000 - 15,000
CNY88,000 - 130,000

清康熙 五彩花卉紋有蓋水槽及盆

Provenance: a distinguished European
private collection

來源：歐洲顯貴私人收藏

Compare with a related fluted famille verte
cistern, Kangxi, decorated with birds and
flowering branches, illustrated by W.Bondy,
Kang-hsi Eine Blüte-Epoche der Chineisischen
Porzellankunst, Munich, 1925, p.211. Another
related famille verte cistern and basin, Kangxi,
but decorated with crabs, is illustrated by
W.G.Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, vol.1,
London, 1911, p.179. Compare also with a
related blue and white cistern in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Feng Xianming,
Geng Baochang and Ye Peilan, eds., Selected
Porcelain of the Flourishing Qing Dynasty,
Beijing, 1994, p.53, no.12.

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