Lot 318
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A FINE FAMILLE-VERTE ROULEAU VASE

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A FINE FAMILLE-VERTE ROULEAU VASE
KANGXI

Well painted in a rich palette with an emperor seated on a lion-skin draped throne set atop a dias, holding an audience with a group of soldiers, below a narrow border of ruyi heads and a wider band of diaper patterns interrupted by reserves enclosing babao, the neck decorated with bamboo and rocks and the galleried mouth rim with a band of crosshatching, a three character collector's mark inscribed on the base--17 7/8 in. (45.4cm.) high

Lot Essay

Related vases are illustrated by Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, vol. 11, nos. 569 and 571, and others have been included in the Hong Kong O.C.S. Exhibition of Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1977, Catalogue, no. 25; and the O.C.S. Exhibition of the Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, London, 1964, Catalogue, no. 166