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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
士紳珍藏
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A FAMILLE VERTE QUATREFOIL There are a number of facetted jardinières with Kangxi marks decorated
in overglaze enamels or cobalt blue in museums. The subject matter
JARDINIERE varies from birds and flowers, such as a wucai jardinière decorated in
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE similar style illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting
Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum,
AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722) Hong Kong, 1999, p. 104, pl. 95; to figural, such as a doucai jardinière
The jardinière is potted with eight bracket-lobed sides, rising from depicting the Three Star Gods in a landscape in the Nanjing Museum,
four ruyi-shaped feet to a flat everted mouth rim of conforming illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain
shape. The exterior is delicately painted in the famille verte palette of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, pp. 94-95; as well
as landscapes, as seen in a blue and white jardinière painted with
depicting four tree shrubs bearing multi-coloured flowers. The landscape scenes on each of the sides is in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
lobed rim is similarly decorated with lingzhi and leaves. The base is illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), The
pierced with a hole. Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong,
14º in. (36 cm.) wide, box 2000, p. 67, pl. 58.
HK$600,000-800,000 US$78,000-100,000

PROVENANCE
Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2012, lot 4101

清康熙 五彩花鳥紋海棠式花盆 六字楷書橫款 (mark)
來源
香港佳士得，2012 年 5 月 30 日，拍品 4101 號

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