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THREE POLYCHROME VESSELS Provenance:
The vase and deep cup, Kangxi; the saucer, Yongzheng Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York
Comprising a slender cylindrical vase very slightly tapering to the Purchase by subscription, 1879
foot and with a bulbous reduced neck, the ogival panels painted in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present
famille-verte enamels with floral garden vignettes all reserved against a
powder-blue ground with traces of gilt floral scrolling designs; a small 來源：
famille-rose-enameled powder-blue ground saucer dish decorated Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904)，紐約
with three reserved panels depicting the sanduo (peach, pomegranate 會費購藏，1879 年
and finger citron), the reverse plain; and a rare verte-imari deep cup 大都會藝術博物館，1879 年迄今
with steep flaring sides supported on a slightly reduced short foot
ring, decorated in underglaze blue with conjoined stylized floral scroll For three powder-blue-ground famille-verte vases of slightly larger size
panels below four flower groupings with the addition of enamel colors than the present example, see Henry Trubner, American Exhibitions of
of shades of iron red, gilt, black, and green to enhance the decoration Chinese Art, Los Angeles County Museum, 1952, p.114, nos.352-353,
with hillocks, fences, and further floral groupings below a thin leafy from the Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Worch Collection, New York. Another pair
floret band at the exterior and interior rim, a chrysanthemum spray of bottle vases are illustrated in Important Chinese Export Porcelain
in underglaze blue at the center with enamel highlights, the slightly from Kangxi to Jiaqing, The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York,
convex base with an underglaze blue encircled aster or daisy spray. (3) 1999, pp.28-29, no.14, where the authors note that the brilliant tone
vase: 5 1/4in (13.3cm) high and depth of the powder-blue glaze was first discovered in the Kangxi
saucer: 4 3/16in (10.6cm) diam period and that the process required glazing the colored enamels first,
cup: 2 5/8in (6.8cm) high and while the body was still humid, the painter would blow the cobalt-
blue glaze through a bamboo tube, covered with gauze.
$600 - 900
清康熙 灑藍釉開光花石圖瓶 及伊萬里風格花卉圖小杯
清雍正 灑藍釉地粉彩開光三多圖小盤

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

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