PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EDGAR AND HEDWIG WORCH
A FAMILLE VERTE POWDER-BLUE-GROUND GARNITURE
Details
A FAMILLE VERTE POWDER-BLUE-GROUND GARNITURE
KANGXI
Comprising: a pair of ovoid vases and covers decorated with alternating shaped rectangular and leaf-form panels; a pair of bottle vases, each with a double-bulb cylindrical neck, decorated with circular and quatrefoil panels; and a beaker vase with quatrefoil and fan-shaped panels; all the panels painted with either 'precious objects', flower sprays or birds picked out in characteristic enamels and reserved on deep, powder-blue grounds, minor chips--11, 10½ and 9½in. (28, 26.7 and 24cm.) high (5)
KANGXI
Comprising: a pair of ovoid vases and covers decorated with alternating shaped rectangular and leaf-form panels; a pair of bottle vases, each with a double-bulb cylindrical neck, decorated with circular and quatrefoil panels; and a beaker vase with quatrefoil and fan-shaped panels; all the panels painted with either 'precious objects', flower sprays or birds picked out in characteristic enamels and reserved on deep, powder-blue grounds, minor chips--11, 10½ and 9½in. (28, 26.7 and 24cm.) high (5)
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, March 14-April 27, 1952, p. 114, nos. 352,353 (the two bottle vases)