Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, NewYork, 11 september 2019
A famille-verte 'Four Accomplishments' rouleau vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722)
Lot 916. A famille-verte 'Four Accomplishments' rouleau vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 19 in., 48.3 cm. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Lot sold 62,500 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.
the slightly tapered body rising to a cylindrical neck and everted mouth rim, painted with a continuous scene of women in a large garden pavilion completing the 'Four Accomplishments': reading poetry, playing go, admiring Chinese paintings, and playing musical instruments, surrounded by young boys at play, the shoulder with reserves enclosing flowers symbolizing the four seasons interspersed with chrysanthemums on a diaper ground, the neck with a continuous scene of further boys at play.
Provenance: Collection of Antoinette H. and Frederick J. Van Slyke.
Sotheby's New York, 31st May 1989, lot 95.
Sotheby's New York, 12th April 1990, lot 532.