A GROUP OF FAMILLE VERTE LIBATION VESSELS

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A GROUP OF FAMILLE VERTE LIBATION VESSELS
KANGXI

Each modeled after an archaic bronze prototype, three similarly decorated on the sides with blue taotie masks and 'auspicious symbols' against stippled and cell-pattern grounds, with a square loop handle flanked by a pair of molded qilin dragons and a broad spout with a further pair of molded qilin on the underside, the interior glazed white, some damage and restoration; the fourth decorated on the sides with floral sprays reserved on a seeded pale-green ground, the interior rim similarly decorated, chips--all 4½in. (11.4cm.) across (4)

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See illustration of two

Lot Essay

Similar libation cups are illustrated by S.W. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, 1980, fig. 329; by W.G. Gullard, Chinese Porcelain, vol. I, 1918, no. 299; and R.L. Hobson, B. Rackham and W. King, Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, London, 1931, fig. 162