Lot 363
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EDGAR AND HEDWIG WORCH
AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE VERTE RITUAL EWER

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AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE VERTE RITUAL EWER
KANGXI

Made in the form of a Tibetan Lama's milk-tea pot, the tall, cylindrical body decorated with an allover pattern of prunus blossoms and babao in white, pale turquoise, pale yellow and aubergine scattered on a green 'cracked ice' ground, encircled by four ribbed bands, two spanned by loop handles molded with monster masks, with a shaped peak rising from the rim behind the curved spout, an artemesia leaf mark painted in black on the green-glazed base, restored--17 5/8in. (44.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare two famille verte ewers of the same form, also, Kangxi, but decorated with a pattern of galloping horses against a wave ground, one in the Koger Collection, illustrated by Ayers in the Catalogue, no. 98; and another, with Louis XIV period gilt-bronze mounts in the J. Paul Getty Museum, illustrated by Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, p. 269, no. 371