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十 18. A Chinese porcelain famille verte biscuit teapot and cover of vertical ribbed bamboo form, each rib painted with birds and flowering

八 plants within the nodes of bamboo, on coloured grounds of aubergine, pale and darker greens and yellow, the spout and handle also

of bamboo form painted in speckled black on an aubergine ground, the cover knop of similar form on a yellow ground with green
素 bamboo.
三
彩 4 ¼ inches, 11 cm high, 5 4/5 inches, 14.8 cm tip of spout to handle.
竹 Kangxi, 1662-1722.

段
壺 • A similar example is illustrated by Walter Bondy in Kang-shi, p. 166; another, by Hobson in The Leonard Gow Collection of

Chinese Porcelain, no. 272, pl. LXIX; another, by David S. Howard in The Choice of the Private Trader from the Hodroff Collection,

清 p. 146, pl. 155; another, by Ruth Ann Krueger Meyer in The Taft Museum Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, p. 627, pl. 1931;76;

康 and a further example, in the Salting Collection, is illustrated by The V&A Museum Department of Ceramics guide to the later

熙 Chinese Porcelain Periods of K’ang hsi, Yung Cheng and Ch’ien Lung, pl. 56c, pp. 44 & 83.

• Bamboo, zhu, serves as a homophone of zhu ‘congratulate’, and symbolises vitality, longevity, humility, fidelity and integrity.

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