A RARE FAMILLE VERTE HEXAGONAL LANTERN

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A RARE FAMILLE VERTE HEXAGONAL LANTERN
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Each bowed side is painted with a scene of figures engaged in leisurely pursuits, between borders of auspicious emblems reserved on a diaper ground, all below a flared, openwork crown and raised on a matching foot.
13 ¼ in. (33.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. (1822-1904) Collection, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1879.

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Lot Essay

A nearly identical Kangxi-period famille verte lantern, also with bowed shape and reticulated flaring crown and foot, is in the Morgan collection and is illustrated in Catalogue of The Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, New York, 1904, plate 23. Another related Kangxi period famille verte lantern is illustrated by R.L. Hobson in Chinese Pottery & Porcelain, New York, 1915, plate 104, fig. 2.

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