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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
1355
A FINE PAIR OF POWDER-BLUE-GROUND FAMILLE VERTE ROULEAU VASES
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The vases are decorated with lobed panels decorated with antiques, a mountainous landscape,
and two panels of fowers, one of peony growing behind blue rocks below a bird in fight, the other
with crabapple growing amidst rocks, all reserved on a powder-blue ground decorated in gilt with
foral designs.
17 in. (43 cm.) high, two cloth boxes
(2)
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE
Henry Clay Frick Collection.
J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) Collection.
James Garland Collection.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
EXHIBITED
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, early 1900s.
LITERATURE
Catalogue of The Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, New York, 1904, pp. 2-3, pl. III.
The present vases are from the same set as the jar and cover decorated with panels of birds sold
at Christie’s New York, 22-23 March 2018, lot 763, and are also illustrated in the same photograph
in Catalogue of The Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, New York, 1904, pp. 2-3, pl. III. (Fig. 1)
清康熙 灑藍地開光五彩山水花鳥博古圖棒槌瓶一對

Fig.1 The present vases illustrated in Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, New York, 1904, pl. III.

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