Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai, large deep basin, Kangxi period, circa 1680

4 août 2016

Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai, large deep basin, Kangxi period, circa 1680

Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai, large deep basin, Kangxi period, circa 1680. Photo Marchant

painted in the centre with covered balcony scene of a maid servant kneeling down after spilling a tray with a bowl of rice and chopsticks in front of Liu Kuan holding a hu tablet beside his attendant holding a fan and a lady approaching from behind a large screen painted with a river landscape, the foreground with attendants holding lanterns beside rockwork and an iron-red marble fence, all beneath the moon and stars, encircled by a wide flat everted rim with six reserves of an open weiqi board, scrolls, books, sword, scroll bundle, a wrapped qin and a ruyi-sceptre, all tied with green ribbons reserved on different geometric diaper grounds. 16 inches, 40.7 cm diameter. Price on request

Provenance: From a European private collection.

Purchased from Marc Michot, Bruges, Belgium, circa 1990.

Notes: A similar basin painted with ladies watching goldfish is illustrated by Ci, in ‘Exploring the Stories on Chinese Porcelain’, pp. 47/52, where the author illustrates a wucai four-sided vase, also published by Qian Zhenzong in Qing Dai Ci Qi Shang Jian, ‘Best Pieces of Qing Dynasty Porcelain’, no. 20, p. 34.

Wang Qingzheng in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, no. 105, pp. 154/5.

The subject is taken from an Eastern Han Dynasty story where the well known high ranking official Liu Kuan, who was reputed to have an unflappable temper, was one day dressed to go to court and his wife wanted to test his temper by asking her maid to spill his meal in front of him. This did not bother Liu Kuan, who actually asked the maid if her hands were burnt by the hot food.

This scene is discussed by Ni Yibin in Kan Tu Shuo, in ‘Exploring the Stories on Chinese Porcelain’, pp. 47/52, where the author illustrates a wucai four-sided vase, also published by Qian Zhenzong in Qing Dai Ci Qi Shang Jian, ‘Best Pieces of Qing Dynasty Porcelain’, no. 20, p. 34.

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