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三 36. Famille verte bottle vase with globular body and cylindrical straight neck, painted on the body with butterflies and
十 insects amongst chrysanthemum, pinks, poppy and aster issuing from pierced rockwork, the shoulder with an iron-red
六 flowerhead and seed-green band, the neck with prunus flowerheads, and further iron-red flowerheads on a seed-green
ground at the rim.
五 21.3cm high.
彩 The base with an Arabic mark, translated as the letter ‘M’.
花 Kangxi, 1662-1722.
卉
紋 • Formerly in an English private collection.
長 • A similar bottle vase was included by William Llewellyn Litton and Laurence Binyon in Catalogue of The
頸 International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-6, no. 1661, pl. 158, p. 140; a similar
瓶 pair in an American private collection is illustrated by Khalil Rizk and Conor Mahony in The Chinese Porcelain
Company , A Dealers’ Record, p. 122.
清 • This shape is inspired by a thirteenth century middle eastern metalwork vase. It has been suggested that the ‘G’ mark
康 is in fact an Arabic character for the letter ‘M’ and may have been the initial of the person who ordered the vase.
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G
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