Lot 151. A large Chinese famille verte reticulated vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722), 60cm H. Estimate: £30,000.00 - £50,000.00. © Chiswick Auctions. 

Of rectangular baluster form with a spreading foot and neck, the body with double walled panels with pierced bee-hive trellis, around a painted walled garden scene with details of figures and trees modelled in high relief, each face of the neck with the trellis set around a panel of a boy modelled in high relief, and the foot similarly decorated but with animals, the angular sides painted with iron-red and white prunus florets reserved on a green dotted ground, occasionally divided by horizontal key fret bands, chevron borders and lotus scrolls

Note: The present vase in size, decoration and complexity is extremely rare. A vase of similar form with relief panels but no reticulation is illustrated in du Boulay, The Taft Museum: Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 1995,`p 649, no 1931.94 and two smaller versions of the Taft Museum piece from the collection at Fontainebleau is illustrated in Scheurleer, Chinesisches und japanisches Pozellan in europaeischen Fassungen, p 279, fig 206. For a jardinere with similar decoration see Ming Wilson, Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics, 1998, no 69.

Chiswick Auctions. Kangxi: Porcelain & Decorative Arts. 12 Nov 2018