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366 A FAMILLE-VERTE ⌲Ꮴ⛆ ρᒖ咺㝌〣⍎ృ᷿ỹ⨣
‘DRAGON BOAT
FESTIVAL’ ROULEAU
VASE

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period ҳ⎽
the cylindrical body painted in vibrant glossy 䊼랫⢕㡦䖤2005䎃11剢22傈管贫74
enamels with a continuous scene of the
Dragon Boat Festival, one dragon boat manned
by twenty-four oarsmen and drummers racing
across the green waters toward celebrants
standing in front of a riverside mansion, a
second dragon boat following close behind,
spectators merrily watching from multi-
storied buildings, the neck with a boatman in
a landscape, the base with a double circle in
underglaze blue, coll. no. 1498.
Height 17¼ in., 43.8 cm
PROVENANCE
Christie’s Paris, 22nd November 2005, lot 74.
This vase belongs to a group of famille-verte
porcelains which represent a new direction in
porcelain painting. The theme of spectatorship
and community engagement runs throughout,
with " gures naturalistically reacting to one
another and actively responding to the
events before them. The same elements
are found in contemporaneous New Year
pictures (nianhua), which circulated widely
as woodblock prints and were a source of
inspiration for ceramicists at Jingdezhen. The
Dragon Boat Festival was a favorite subject for
these prints, and possibly provided the basis
for this vase and others of its type.
A larger famille-verte rouleau vase, also
depicting the Dragon Boat Festival, is in the
collection of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art (acc. no. 14.40.85). A related vase, but
in rouleau form and with women welcoming
a phoenix, from J.T. Tai & Co. sold in these
rooms, 22nd March 2011, lot 108.
$ 20,000-30,000

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