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A famille verte baluster vase
Kangxi
Vividly enamelled with a continuous scene with
a supplicant approaching a superbly armoured
commander surrounded by warriors and ladies
in a pavilion overlooking a garden landscape, the
scene divided by cloud scrolls containing an incised
inscription, the shoulder decorated with iron-red
lotus flowerheads on a green scroll ground, beneath
a continuous bamboo and rockwork scene around
the neck, wood stand.
45.5cm (17 7/8in) high (2).
£6,000 - 10,000
HK$75,000 - 130,000 CNY59,000 - 99,000
清康熙 五彩人物故事圖瓶
Provenance 來源: D & M Freedman Ltd., London
Desmond R.Laurence Collection, acquired on
7 August 2000
S.Marchant and Son, London (label)
Roy Davids Collection, no.40, acquired on
16 November 2010
The incised characters on the body read:
霞湖 Xia Hu
峰山曾公 Feng Shan Zeng Gong
公會喜捨 Gong Hui Xi She
which may be translated as ‘Given by the
association to Mr. Zeng of Fengshan, Xiahu’.
A related vase, of similar shape and style of
enamelling and dated to the late 17th century, is
illustrated by C.J.A.Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the
Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: The
Ming and Qing Dynasties, London, 1997, no.161.

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