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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION It is rare to find such a finely enameled biscuit vase of this
A RARE FAMILLE-VERTE BISCUIT ‘LANDSCAPE’ size and subject matter. The bucolic scene of scholars in a
ROULEAU VASE landscape, with studios and pavilions dotting the hills and
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD fisherman out on the river, is confidently and delicately
rendered in a range of blues, greens, aubergine, and
painterly strokes of black.
well-painted and enameled in shades of green, blue and
aubergine with a continuous scene of scholars in an idyllic Compare a famille-verte biscuit-form stand from the Jie
mountainous landscape, some seated in their studios, one Rui Tang Collection, similarly enameled and painted with a
on horseback on a grassy bank, a pair conversing on a hill, related landscape scene, sold in these rooms, 20th March
the sky and water left in the biscuit, the shoulder with lobed 2018, lot 354. A smaller rouleau vase, freely painted with
medallions enclosing auspicious objects on a scrollwork flowers and rockwork, is illustrated in Hobson, Rackham &
ground, the neck with a further landscape scene, all between King, Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, London, 1931,
petal lappets encircling the base and bands of keyfret, pl. 4. See also a brushpot painted with an idyllic river scene
ruyi and scrolls above, the base with a black-enameled sold in our London rooms, 12th June 2003, lot 1178.
shou character within a circular impression, mounted on a
revolving base (2)
Height 16½ in., 42 cm
清康熙 素三彩山水人物圖棒槌瓶
PROVENANCE
來源
Collection of Richard Bennett (b. 1849), Esq.
Edgar Gorer, London, 1911. Richard Bennett 收藏
M. Parish-Watson, New York. Edgar Gorer，倫敦，1911年
Collection of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874-1960). M. Parish-Watson，紐約
Collection of John D. Rockefeller, III (1906-1978). 小約翰•D•洛克菲勒 (1874-1960) 收藏
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 2nd February 1976. 約翰•D•洛克菲勒三世 (1906-1978) 收藏
Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約，1976年2月2日
EXHIBITED
The Grand Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New 展覽
York, 1974-1975, cat. no. 80. 《The Grand Gallery》，大都會藝術博物館，
Dreicer & Co., New York, circa 1911 紐約，1974至1975年，編號80
Dreicer & Co.，紐約，約1911年
LITERATURE
Catalogue of the Collection of Old Chinese Porcelains formed 出版
by Richard Bennett, Esq., London, 1911, cat. no. 316. 《Catalogue of the Collection of Old Chinese Porcelains
Edgar Gorer and J. F. Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hard formed by Richard Bennett, Esq.》，倫敦，1911年，
Stones, vol. 1, London, 1911, pl. 105. 編號316
Edgar Gorer 及 J. F. Blacker，《Chinese Porcelain and
$ 30,000-50,000 Hard Stones》，卷1，倫敦，1911年，圖版105

The present lot illustrated in Catalogue of the
Collection of Old Chinese Porcelains formed
by Richard Bennett, Esq., London, 1911, cat.
no. 316.
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