Lot 313
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An Unusual Famille Verte Hexagonal Lantern and Stand
Tax exempt. SALE TO BENEFIT THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS, EX-COLLECTION DAVID A. BERG, NEW YORK*
An Unusual Famille Verte Hexagonal Lantern and Stand

KANGXI

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An Unusual Famille Verte Hexagonal Lantern and Stand
Kangxi
Each facet of the lantern with an openwork panel surrounded by butterflies and flowers reserved on a stippled green ground, the top with an openwork medallion within a field of prunus and cracked ice pattern, the top of the separate stand channeled to hold the cover and the apron painted in black and mauve in imitation of wood grain
9½in. (24cm.) across stand
Special notice
Tax exempt.

Lot Essay

A number of these famille verte lanterns have been published. They differ primarily in the openwork panels, being either cash, Buddhistic crosses, or shaped panels, as in the present lot. Compare an almost identical lantern, possibly the same one, illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, New Jersey, 1984, p. 232, no. 10.

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