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25 février 2019

A rare famille-verte 'landscape' square vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi Period (1662-1722)

A rare famille-verte 'landscape' square vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi Period (1662-1722)

Lot 804. A rare famille-verte 'landscape' square vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi Period (1662-1722); 21 1/8 in., 53. 6 cm. Estimate 120,000 — 150,000 USD. Lot sold 288,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's.

of squared section, the slightly tapering upright sides finely painted in soft pastel tones of green, pale blue, yellow, gray and iron-red enamels with scholar-literati scenes, one side with a scholar crossing a over a bridge beneath towering mountains, another side with a scholar seated inside a gazebo upon a lotus pond gazing out at a fisherman, the third side with a scholar contemplating along the banks of a river, while his attendant waits next to his wheelchair, the fourth side with a fisherman seated in a skiff with his rod cast, the tall waisted neck set upon the squared shoulders painted with 'Precious Objects', including an archaic gu vessel, ding, chimes and a white rabbit, the shoulders with four butterflies enclosed within panels, all below a band of upright and pendant lotus flowers at the rim .

NoteFamille-verte vases of this square form painted in the Ming style with scholars in a landscape setting are extremely rare. Kangxi vases of this type are typically painted with scenes taken from plays or popular literature. The present vase is reminiscent of Kangxi blue and white vases of the same shape decorated in the style of scholars paintings; see one illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (III), Hong Kong, 2000, pl. 18; and another in the Shanghai Museum published in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 32.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, including Property from the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 19-20 march 2007

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