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20 avril 2011

A rare underglaze-red and famille-verte vase with roses, Mark and period of Kangxi (1662-1722)

A rare underglaze-red and famille-verte vase with roses, Mark and period of Kangxi (1662-1722)

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Lot 2. A rare underglaze-red and famille-verte vase with roses, Mark and period of Kangxi (1662-1722); 8.8cm., 3 1/2 in. Estimate 1,200,000—1,500,000 HKD. Lot Sold 2,420,000 HKD. Photo Sotheby's

the well-rounded ovoid body tapering to a short flared rim, elegantly decorated with two rose sprays rising from the base, each with a large bloom and bud in a soft pinkish underglaze red, and foliage drawn in black with washes in different tones of green, the recessed concave base with the six-character mark finely written in three lines.

Exhibited: Evolution to Perfection. Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection/Evolution vers la perfection. Céramiques de Chine de la Collection Meiyintang, Sporting d'Hiver, Monte Carlo, 1996, cat. no. 153.

Literature: Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 2, no. 737.

Note: This exquisite, sparse and peaceful design in which blank white space is predominating like often on album-leaf paintings, is highly unusual for Qing porcelain, and the chosen combination of underglaze copper-red and overglaze enamels is equally rare. The present design is, however, known in two similar versions, with the bud to the left or right of the main bloom, and a very similar design appears also on one other shape, on small water pots, where the buds or blooms can be painted in overglaze iron-red and occasionally other enamels. A very similar vase in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is published together with a matching water pot in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong. Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, pp. 41-2, pls 24 and 25; a vase and two water pots in the Shanghai Museum are illustrated in Wang Qingzheng, ed., Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pls 83-5; another vase and water pot are illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, vol. 2, pls 148 and 149.

Similar vases are also in the Sir Percival David Collection in the British Museum, London, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ming Style Polychrome Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 2006, no. B 702; in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated in He Li, Chinese Ceramics. A New Standard Guide, London, 1996, pl. 579; one from the Edward T. Chow collection was sold in these rooms 19th May 1981, lot 539 and again 28th April 1992, lot 158.

Vase with flower spays, Qing dynasty, Kangxi mark and period, AD 1662–1722

Vase with flower spays, Qing dynasty, Kangxi mark and period, AD 1662–1722. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt-blue, underglaze copper-red and overglaze green and black enamels, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province; 8,7 x 9,1 cm. , Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, PDF B702 © Trustees of the British Museum

SSotheby's. The Meiyintang Collection - An Important Selection of Imperial Chinese Porcelains, 07 Apr 11, Hong Kong

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