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PROPERTY FROM A LOS ANGELES PRIVATE COLLECTION

A LARGE AND RARE FAMILLE-VERTE
‘ARROW’ VASE AND STAND
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

the vase of hexagonal section, each side painted with roundels
enclosing various Daoist gures, birds and owers, a landscape
scene and inscriptions, all reserved on a pale-green stippled
ground painted with butter ies amidst owers borne on leafy
stems, two separately-molded chilong scaling the sides, the
lower section with the Eight Immortals on a white ground, the
conforming stand with three registers of shaped openwork
panels, the supports with varying brocade patterns and foliate
motifs, divided by gilt ruyi and keyfret borders in relief (2)
Height 30 in., 76.2 cm

PROVENANCE

Collection of John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York.
Duveen, New York, 1950.

LITERATURE

Stephen W. Bushell and William M. La an, Catalogue of the
Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelain, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 1907, Case D, no. 2, illus. pl. XIX.

$ 25,000-35,000

Duveen 1837 1913
1950

Stephen W Bushell William M La an

Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese

Porcelain 1907

D 2 XIX

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