A FAMILLE VERTE PEAR-SHAPED VASE

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A FAMILLE VERTE PEAR-SHAPED VASE
KANGXI

The pear-form body painted with a broad ruyi collar enriched with chrysanthemum scroll picked out in yellow and outlined in black against a green ground, above two flower sprays and below a band of similar scroll reserved in white on an iron-red ground on the knop at the base of the neck, the whole raised on a tall spreading foot encircled by narrow ruyi-head and demi-chrysanthemum chevron borders, rim fritting, surface chips at rim--15 1/4in. (38.7cm.) high

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum , Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, March 14-April 27, 1952, p. 109, no. 325

Lot Essay

A pair of very similar vases together with a baluster jar of the same pattern, described as three from a garniture of five, is illustrated by du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, p. 229, no. 18