Lot 287
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A RARE FAMILLE-VERTE FACETED JARDINIÈRE

Details
A RARE FAMILLE-VERTE FACETED JARDINIÈRE
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

Each of the four broad sides decorated in famille verte on a white ground of palest blue-green tone with a naturalistic vignette set within raised borders, one with a carp jumping from waves amidst peach blossom petals falling from the branch above, the other three with various birds perched on fruiting branches, including peach, pomegranate and another, possibly lizhi, with canes of bamboo and lingzhi fungus decorating the four corner panels, the sides flaring from above a spreading foot decorated with painted and molded petal-shaped borders towards the flat, everted rim decorated on top with cranes in flight amidst blossoming and fruiting peach branches, with a large circular aperture in the base, the nianhao written in a line on the underside of the rim, minor rim fritting
20¼in. (51.5cm.) across

Lot Essay

Only one other jardinière of this exact form, palette and decoration bearing a Kangxi mark appears to be published. See the example from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1976, p. 17, nos. 5 and 6 and again in Gu Ci Yanjiu (A Study of Ancient Porcelain) by Liu Liangyou, Taiwan, 1988, p. 227. Another famille verte Kangxi-marked jardinière also painted with birds and flowers and of hexagonal form, but supported on six scroll-form feet and with the six facets of equal size, is in the Tokyo National Musuem, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, the World's Great Collections, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1975, no. 157. Compare, also, the example illustrated by Anthony Du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, New Jersey, 1984, p. 225, no. 15