Tax exempt.

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

A Pair of Famille-Verte Ovoid Lanterns

KANGXI

Details

A Pair of Famille-Verte Ovoid Lanterns
Kangxi
Each with collared upper and lower rims, the thinly potted body well painted with a different scene of the same story, on one a bearded official sits at a table where a young woman and young man play weiqi while to one side a female attendant displays a large iron-red covered dish, on the other lantern the same female attendant presents the dish, now uncovered, to a woman seated before an altar table backed by a screen painted with waves, all within decorative borders
8½in. (21.6cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Dr. Lockhardt.

Special notice

Tax exempt.

Lot Essay

An identical, if not the same, pair of lanterns from the collection of Richard Bennett, Esq., D.L. is illustrated by Gorer and Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, London, 1911, vol. I, pl. 123. Compare, also, the pair of lanterns illustrated by Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, London, 1925, p. XLVI, figs. 1 and 2 and the pair sold in our London rooms, 15 June 1999, lot 83.

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