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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 楁㷗Ἓ⢓⼿炻2012⸜5㚰30㖍炻㉵⑩4101嘇

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A FAMILLE VERTE QUATREFOIL JARDINIERE

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF
THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The jardinière is potted with eight bracket-lobed sides, rising from
four ruyi-shaped feet to a flat everted mouth rim of conforming
shape. The exterior is delicately painted in the famille verte palette
depicting four tree shrubs bearing multi-coloured flowers. The
lobed rim is similarly decorated with lingzhi and leaves. The base is
pierced with a hole.
14 º in. (36 cm.) wide, box

HK$1,000,000-1,500,000 US$130,000-190,000

PROVENANCE

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

There are a number of facetted jardinieres with Kangxi marks
decorated in overglaze enamels or cobalt blue in museums. The
subject matter varies from birds and flowers, such as a wucai jardinière
decorated in similar style illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and
Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 104, pl. 95; to figural, such as a
doucai jardinière depicting the Three Star Gods in a landscape in the
Nanjing Museum, illustrated in Treasures in the Royalty: The Official
Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, pp. 94-95;
as well as landscapes, as seen in a blue and white jardinière painted
with landscape scenes on each of the sides is in the Palace Museum,
Beijing, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red
(III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum,
Hong Kong, 2000, p. 67, pl. 58.

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