A Pair of Unusual Dated Famille Verte Meiping

Tax exempt.

SALE TO BENEFIT THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, EX-COLLECTION DAVID A. BERG, NEW YORK*

A Pair of Unusual Dated Famille Verte Meiping

XIN SI NIAN ZHI FOUR-CHARACTER CYCLICAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE, CORRESPONDING TO 1701, KANGXI

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A Pair of Unusual Dated Famille Verte Meiping
Xin si Nian Zhi four-character cyclical mark in underglaze blue, corresponding to 1701, Kangxi
Each well painted with a different audience scene on one side and trees in a rocky landscape on the reverse above a molded white border and a band of scattered blossoms, the spreading, rounded foot encircled by a band of overlapping petals and the neck by a band of zigzag and demi-florettes
12in. (30.5cm.) high (2)

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Tax exempt.

Lot Essay

An identical, if not the same, pair of vases of this unusual shape from the collection of Mrs. Colis P. Huntington is illustrated by Gorer and Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, London, 1911, vol. I, pl. 118.

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