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337 AN IRON-RED ⌲Ꮴ⛆ ρᒖ䪸ٶ㟞划㴟㲣ృ᷿ỹ⨣
GROUND FAMILLE-
VERTE ROULEAU
VASE

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period ҳ⎽
Ralph M Chait Galleries秣秉
the cylindrical body well painted with
decorative panels reserved against a scrolling
chrysanthemum iron red ground, a large
rectangular panel with a katydid delicately
poised on a # ower bud issuing from a # oral
bower emerging from rockwork, the other
large panel with a similar profusion of
# owering and fruiting branches suspended
from rockwork with a bird perched on a twig,
its mate preparing to alight on another branch
above, divided by a pomegranate-shaped
panel enclosing ‘insects and # ora’ and a leaf-
shaped panel enclosing ‘! sh and waterweeds’,
all between ruyi head and lappet borders, the
shoulder with ‘butter# y and prunus’ reserved
against a green # oral ground, the neck with
four phoenix roundels between decorative
bands, coll. no. 1394.
Height 18⅛ in., 46 cm
PROVENANCE
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
This ! nely painted vase belongs to rare group
of iron-red or green ground cylindrical forms
similarly painted with speci! c bird and # owers
with auspicious meaning.
Similar examples include one from the Salting
Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London illustrated in R. L. Hobson, Chinese
Pottery and Porcelain, vol. II, London, 1915,
pl. 103, one from the Walters Collection is
illustrated in Stephen Bushell, Oriental Ceramic
Art, New York, 1980, pl. XVII, another from the
collection of Frederick J. and Antoinette H. van
Slyke was sold in these rooms, 31st May 1989,
lot 94. See also a related ! sh bowl featuring
the same palette and decoration, from the
Palace Museum, Beijing illustrated in Kangxi,
Yongzheng, Qianlong, Kong Kong, 1989, pl. 40.
$ 20,000-30,000

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