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PROPERTY OF AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A QUADRANGULAR FAMILLE-VERTE
‘LANDSCAPE’ VASE
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
the stoutly potted square-section body with
tapered rectangular sides supporting a waisted
cylindrical neck and everted rim painted
brightly with floral sprigs and butterflies, one
side of the body painted with two figures
conversing in a landscape, another side with
dwellings situated among pine trees, the
third side with a fisherman in a sampan, and
the fourth with figure riding a mule into the
mountains, the base with a small recessed
square covered in clear glaze
Height 19 in., 48.2 cm

PROVENANCE
Christie’s London, 3rd November 2009, lot 313.
Compare a Kangxi period blue and white
vases of the same shape decorated in the
style of literati paintings; see one illustrated in
The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum. Blue and White Porcelain with
Underglaze Red (III), Hong Kong, 2000, pl. 18;
and another in the Shanghai Museum published
in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai
Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 32.
A similar example sold in these rooms, 20th
March 2007, lot 804.
$ 15,000-25,000

清康熙 五彩山水人物圖方瓶
來源
倫敦佳士得2009年11月3日，編號313

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