Famille-Verte

A Famille-Verte figure of a seated Guanyin, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period. Photo courtesy Sotheby's the figure, seated with legs folded, holding a ruyi scepter in one hand and a fly whisk in the other, wearing an elegantly draped green-glazed robe painted with lotus, the head, covered by a long cowl falling over the shoulders painted with leafy florets, the face well-modeled with a benevolent expression, a small square aperture on the back, the base unglazed. Height 8 1/4  in., 21... [Lire la suite]

A Famille-Verte small Rouleau Vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Photo courtesy Sotheby's painted on the cylindrical body with a lady offering a flower to her companion seated in a chair, a boy holding a fan beside them, the waisted neck painted with bamboo sprays. Height 10 5/8  in., 27 cm. Estimation 5,000 — 7,000 USD PROVENANCE: Acquired in Hong Kong, 1980s, and thence by descent. NOTE: Compare a famille-verte vase of similar form and size sold in these rooms, 19th March 2007, lot 152; and also... [Lire la suite]

A Famille-Verte octagonal bowl, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Photo Sotheby's the exterior richly enameled, each of the eight panels painted with a different rendering of an archaic Ding-form vessel against alternating grounds of aubergine and green diamond pattern with two shou characters and a green stippled ground with scattered flowers all above a narrow lappet band, the interior with a central medallion of a large Ding vessel against a leiwen ground, the rim with... [Lire la suite]

A pair of rare pair of Famille-Verte ewers and covers, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Photo Sotheby's the pear-shaped body of each well-modeled with spiraling ribs, repeated on the high arching C-form handle, upright spout and domed cover, painted with lotus, scattered flowers, pairs of birds and fluttering butterflies, against a ground of iron-red stippling, the base glazed white  (4). Height 10 7/8  in.,  27.6 cm. Estimation 8,000 — 12,000 USD PROVENANCE: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York,... [Lire la suite]

A Famille-Verte Rouleau Vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Photo Sotheby's of cylindrical form, the canted shoulder rising to a tall neck and galleried rim, well-painted with a continuous scene of four musicians, playing the pipa, sheng, castanets and clapper, performing for a seated dignitary attended to by boys serving tea in an open garden pavilion with a landscape-painted folding screen behind, the shoulder with reserves of bamboo and florets on a green diaper ground, the neck with a rustic... [Lire la suite]

A Famille-verte bottle vase. Qing dynasty, Kangxi period - Sothebys the globular body rising from a short foot to a tall cylindrical neck, painted with four budding lotus sprays alternating with lanterns variously decorated with landscape, birds and horse, all below large ruyi-shaped lappets enclosing butterflies amongst floral blooms on a stippled ground, the neck encircled by meandering lotus sprays, all divided by lappet, diaper, keyfret and ruyi bands; 41.8cm., 16 1/2 in. Estimation: 8,000 - 12,000 GBP ... [Lire la suite]

A rare Famille-verte ‘Bird and flowers’ square vase, Kangxi mark and period - Sothebys of square section, the tapering body rising to angled shoulders surmounted by a waisted neck, painted to each face with birds amongst leafy floral blooms issuing from rocks, the shoulder with lingzhi sprays, similarly decorated with leafy floral branches and rocks on the neck, the recessed centre on the base inscribed with a six-character mark; 51cm., 20 1/8 in. Estimation: 15,000 - 20,000 GBP PROVENANCE: Purchased in... [Lire la suite]

A Famille-verte baluster jar and cover. Qing dynasty, Kangxi period - Sothebys the baluster body rising to a short waisted neck, painted around the exterior with three rows of petal-shaped panels variously enclosing flowers, mythical animals, birds and insects, all below a diaper band of shaped floral cartouches alternating with butterflies, the neck with detached composite floral sprays, the domed cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a lotus bud finial, later gilt-bronze stand; Quantité: 3 - 58cm., 22 7/8... [Lire la suite]

A Famille-verte baluster jar and cover. Qing dynasty, Kangxi period - Sothebys the baluster body rising to a short waisted neck, painted around the exterior with three rows of petal-shaped panels variously enclosing flowers, birds and insects, all below a composite floral scroll, the domed cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a lotus bud finial, later gilt-bronze stand. Quantité: 3- 55.7cm., 22in. Estimation: 8,000 - 10,000 GBP Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. London | 15 mai... [Lire la suite]

A rare famille-verte ‘Birthday’ dish, Kangxi mark and period - Sotheby's the shallow sides rising from a tapering foot to an everted rim, delicately enamelled to the interior with a goose gliding over a small gaggle of three geese feeding and squawking among bamboo and waterweeds beside a pond, encircled at the rim in iron-red with lotus florets and roundels enclosing the charactersWanshou wujiang (Limitless longevity) on a honeycomb diaper ground, the base with a six-character mark within a double-circle, Japanese wood... [Lire la suite]