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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN COLLECTION
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A LARGE FAMILLE VERTE BOWL
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The bowl is molded on the lower body with a band of petals which are decorated
on the exterior with mythical beasts alternating with a variety of fowering plants
and birds, all below a shaped, diagonally arranged panels enclosing various fowers
growing amidst garden rocks, as well as butterfies and birds in fight. The center
of the interior is similarly decorated within a barbed ten-petaled medallion below
decorative bands at the rim. A seal mark within a double circle in underglaze-blue is
on the base.
13¿ in. (33.3 cm.) diam.
$7,000-9,000
PROVENANCE
John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874-1960) Collection, New York.
Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908-1979) Collection, New York.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
清康熙 五彩瑞獸花鳥圖大盌
(interior)
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