a pair of massive famille verte biscuit yenyen vases
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a pair of massive famille verte biscuit yenyen vases

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARKS, 19TH CENTURY

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a pair of massive famille verte biscuit yenyen vases
Kangxi six-character marks, 19th Century
Each with baluster body and tall flaring trumpet neck, enamelled in aubergine, yellow and black enamels on a green ground with finches perched and flying among blossoming prunus branches issuing from rockwork around the base, the interiors unglazed, rim hairline to one
30½ in. (77.5 cm.) high (2)
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拍品專文

Kangxi examples of this design and size are rare. Examples can be found in the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, illustrated by D. Lion-Goldschmidt, Chinese Art, 1980, p.197, no.154; in the Frick Collection, New York, illustrated in IThe Frick Collection, Catalogue, 1974, p.102; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein in A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1975, no. 221; in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, illustrated in the Handbook, vol. II, 1973, p. 90 (bottom left); and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, from the Salting Collection, illustrated by W.B. Honey, Guide to the Later Chinese Porcelain Periods of K'ang Hsi, Yung Cheng and Ch'ien Lung, 1927, pl. 69.