Lot 385
385
A RARE PAIR OF GILT, FAMILLE VERTE AND MIRROR BLACK-DECORATED TRIPLE-GOURD VASES

KANGXI

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A RARE PAIR OF GILT, FAMILLE VERTE AND MIRROR BLACK-DECORATED TRIPLE-GOURD VASES
Kangxi
The central bulb of each decorated in a famille verte palette with various birds and flowers within leaf-shaped, rectangular or circular panels reserved against a pattern of gilt lotus scroll reserved on a pale iron-red ground on one and a pale turquoise ground on the other, with similarly shaped panels on the upper bulb and quadrilobe panels on the lower bulb variously depicting landscapes, 'antiques', birds or animals, also reserved against a gilt lotus scroll reserved on a mirror-black ground, all within decorative gilt or famille verte borders
27 and 26in. (69.9 and 67.3cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Compare a single and pair of related vases in the collection of Schloss Charlottenburg included in the Exhibition of Chinese Art, Berlin, 12 January - 2 April, 1929, Catalogue, p. 321, nos. 865 and 866. Compare, also, the pair of triple-gourd vases, also with gilt-decorated mirror black upper and lower bulbs previously in the Collections of J. Pierpont Morgan and Archibald van Beuren, Newport, Rhode Island, sold in these rooms, 2 June 1989, lot 34, the Eugene O. Perkins Collection of Qing Porcelain. Two other examples are illustrated by W.T. Walters, Oriental Ceramic Art, New York, 1980, pl. LXI and p. 166, fig. 212.