A RARE FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT FU-CHARACTER EWER AND COVER

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EDGAR AND HEDWIG WORCH

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A RARE FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT FU-CHARACTER EWER AND COVER
KANGXI

The pierced vessel formed as a stylized fu character rising from a flat base, centered by a recessed quatrefoil panel on each side containing an immortal holding an offering dish, one holding a jue, set against a ground of floral cell-pattern enriched with various fu characters, the sides decorated with various auspicious symbols reserved on a seeded green ground interrupted by an 'ear'-form handle and curved spout painted to simulate bamboo, the fitted, shaped cover similarly decorated, all picked out in green, yellow, aubergine and gilt, with iron-red highlights, restoration to handle and spout, base crack--9in. (22.9cm.) high

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, March 14-April 27, 1952, p. 109, no. 327

Lot Essay

Compare two ewers of similar form with figural plaques at the center, but with different decoration on the character, one illustrated by Cosmo Monkhouse, A History and Description of Chinese Porcelain, London, 1901, fig. 50; and another in the Grandidier Collection, Museé Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, vol. 7, Kodansha Series, no. 150