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A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE ‘SIXTEEN SONS’ OVOID VASE A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE BRUSHPOT, BITONG
KANGXI 1662-1722 KANGXI 1662-1722
Painted in coloured enamels with a joyful scene of four concubines and The cylindrical body painted in enamels with a boy presenting a lotus to
sixteen boys at play in a garden, the base with a paper label for Sydney a scholar seated by a table in a garden, the reverse inscribed with a Song
L Moss Ltd, together with a wood stand and reticulated cover, 20.6cm. (3) dynasty poem about lotus, with two seal marks, the base painted with a
collection number 1128?, 14.5cm.
£1,000-2,000
£3,000-4,000
Provenance: from an English private collection, Wiltshire, purchased from
Sydney L Moss Ltd on 5th December 1968. A copy of the invoice is available. Cf. Christie’s Amsterdam, 21st-22nd September 2010, lot 423 for a related
This subject is derived from the Shang dynasty story of Jiang Ziya, the senior famille verte brushpot also decorated with a scholar and a boy in a garden.
military counsellor who famously appointed sixteen good generals. 清康熙 五彩詩文筆筒
清康熙 五彩四妃十六子罐 銘文：接天蓮葉無窮碧，楊日
來源：英國威爾郡私人收 荷花別樣紅，樵居。
藏，1968年12月5日購於Sydney
L Moss Ltd （附發票複印件）。

Sydney L Moss invoice reverse
5th December 1968

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