Lot 364
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A LARGE FAMILLE VERTE YENYEN VASE

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A LARGE FAMILLE VERTE YENYEN VASE
PROBABLY KANGXI

Well painted overall with a flock of yellow-breasted birds with green wing and tail feathers perched in the branches of a blossoming prunus tree, all in shades of white, yellow, green, pale aubergine and black against a bright green ground, base with a double circle in underglaze blue, some wear to glaze--27 1/4 in. (69.2 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare two famille verte vases of similar size and decoration painted with birds and prunus on a green ground, one in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by Valenstein in A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, p. 22, no. 221, and one in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, illustrated by Goldschmidt, Chinese Art, no. 154. Compare also a vase in the Nelson Gallery of Art, Atkins Museum, Kansas City, illustrated in the Handbook, vol. II, 1973, p. 90 (below left)