KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Details

A SMALL FAMILLE VERTE MODEL OF A TABLE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The top of the table with a rectangular panel decorated with various insects in flight above leafy plants and grasses issuing from a rocky outcrop, all below a seal and a leaf mark, the legs and apron decorated with a 'cracked-ice' pattern
6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) long

Provenance

The Collection of Baron Eugene Fould-Springer, Royaumont Abbatial Palace, France, no. 171.

Lot Essay

See a similar example illustrated by R. L. Hobson, The George Eumorfopoulos Collection, vol. V, London, 1925-8, pl. XXXI, fig. E. 152. For a famille verte biscuit stand of similar form, but with different design, see Christian J. A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, London, 1997, p. 187, no. 209.

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