Lot 881. A large famille verte ovoid vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000 . Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016

The sides are decorated with shaped panels enclosing ladies, children and cats in garden settings, between two registers of smaller panels of 'antiques', all reserved on a stippled ground painted with butterflies and composite floral blossoms. The neck is decorated with two panels of flower groups on a diaper ground. 17 7/8 in. (45.4 cm.) high

Provenance : Ralph M. Chait, no. 7010 (according to label on base). 
Robert E. Tod Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1937.

Christie's. Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 15 September 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza