A SMALL FAMILLE VERTE BEAKER

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Details

A SMALL FAMILLE VERTE BEAKER
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The deep sides decorated with a scene of a young scholar seated on a terrace, with his arm resting on the qin beside him and surrounded by a jar, bowl, fan, basin and large vase
4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Collection of G. & C.W. Digby.

Lot Essay

A slightly smaller beaker of the same shape, painted with a scholar and two attendants, one holding a wine ewer and the other unwrapping a lute, is in the H. K. Oppenheim Collection and is illustrated by R.L. Hobson, B. Rackham and W. King, Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, London, 1931, p. 83, fig. 159.

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