A very fine famille verte rouleau vase - Kangxi

Brilliantly enamelled around the body with a detailed scene depicting a high official and his consort holding audience with various scholars on a terraced garden populated by plantain and other trees and rocks, the sky with iron-red clouds, the shoulder with a single wide band with iron-head flower-heads and four cartouches containing Buddhist emblems, the wide neck with a continuous riverscape.
43cm (17in) high. - Estimate: HK$500,000 - 700,000, $65,000 - 90,000 - Non adjugé

Provenance: Bluett & Sons Ltd., London
Victor Sullivan

It is rare to find a rouleau vase with such high quality decoration in famille verte enamels, depicting a Chinese historical scene, but a similar vase from the Imperial collection is preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Vol. 38, Hong Kong, 1999, pl.69.

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Bonhams.Fine Chinese Ceramics, Works of Art and Paintings, 26 Nov 2007. JW Marriott Hotel, Admiralty, Hong Kong