Tax exempt.

PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND*

A Large Famille Verte Yenyen Vase

KANGXI

Details

A Large Famille Verte Yenyen Vase
Kangxi
The body decorated with alternating panels of mythical beasts and birds arranged in two registers below a band of antique reserves on the shoulder and two panels on the trumpet neck, one with a pheasant below a magnolia branch, the other with two birds perched on a hydrangea branch, all reserved against a reverse-decorated iron-red ground of chrysanthemum meander
29in. (73.7cm.) high

Literature

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection: bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944, pl. XXXIV, no. 65.

Special notice

Tax exempt.

Lot Essay

Compare a yenyen vase of the same size also decorated with shaped panels on an iron-red ground, illustrated in Chinesisches Porzellan, Ernst Zimmermann, Leipzig, 1923, p. 103. See, also, a similarly decorated rouleau vase included in Chinese Porcelains in the Hermitage Collection, T. Arapova, Leningrad, 1977, pl. XI.

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