KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A FAMILLE VERTE ROULEAU VASE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Decorated around the sides with a battle scene of a general and his soldiers thrusting long spears from the top of a bluff at an army approaching the bluff in three boats surrounded by the roiling waves of the river, below panels of bamboo reserved on a diaper ground on the canted shoulder and a river landscape on the reel-form neck
18½ in. (47 cm.) high

Lot Essay

A comparable vase with battle scenes on the main register and a landscape around the neck is illustrated by Y. Mino and J. Robinson, Beauty and Tranquility: the Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1983, p. 338, fig. 14. A second example, formerly from the Edward T. Chow Collection, was sold in these rooms, 20 March 1997, lot 135.

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