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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION

A FAMILLE-VERTE BISCUIT FIGURE OF
GUANYIN
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

the deity seated in meditative pose, one hand securing a small
child, the other hand slightly raised, wearing a voluminous
wide-sleeved white robe bordered with a green-ground
chevron pattern and centered with yellow, aubergine and black
foliate motifs on a green ground, adorned with an applied
tasseled beaded necklace, the unglazed hair neatly pulled into
a top knot, surmounted by a cowl painted with orets and a
central ‘pearl’, falling gently over the shoulders and framing the
delicately featured face bearing a benign expression, all raised
on a balustraded hexagonal throne with three overlapping rows
of lotus petals over a central green-ground foliate-decorated
panel enclosing a crane with spread wings between ruyi
pierced diaper-ground panels (2)
Height 15⅝ in., 39.6 cm

PROVENANCE

Chait Galleries, New York, 1980s.

$ 8,000-12,000

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Chait Galleries 1980

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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION James A Garland 1840 1902
Duveen
A FAMILLE-VERTE BISCUIT OCTAGONAL John Pierpont Morgan 1837 1913
STAND Ralph M Chait Galleries
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
Stephen W Bushell William M La an Catalogue of The
richly enameled, the top with a lively pair of confronting chilong
among scrolling lotus blooms issuing leaves and pads and Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelain
‘draping’ over four sides, partially obscuring rectangular panels
of wanzi pattern openwork, above an aubergine faux bois 1904 XXV 662
cabriole-leg stand all supported on a conforming plinth painted
with auspicious emblems, central apertures to the base and top
Height 10 in., 25.4 cm

PROVENANCE

Collection of James A. Garland (1840-1902), New York.
Duveen, New York.
Collection of John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

EXHIBITED

Stephen W. Bushell and William M. La an, Catalogue of The
Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelain, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 1904, Case XXV, no. cat. 662.

A pair of famille-verte biscuit stands of the same form but
taller and with solid sides in The British Royal Collection is
illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in
the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol. I, London, 2016,
pls 505-6. See also a hexagonal lantern similarly decorated
but slightly smaller and with an openwork panel at the top,
illustrated in Christiaan J.A. Jörg, Famille Verte Chinese
Porcelain in Green Enamels, Groninger Museum, Groninger,
2011, cat. no. 107.

$ 8,000-12,000

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