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A LARGE FAMILLE NOIRE YENYEN VASE

Details
A LARGE FAMILLE NOIRE YENYEN VASE
KANGXI

The characteristic form with high-shouldered body tapering to a spreading foot and surmounted by a high trumpet neck, glazed in green, aubergine, yellow and black with birds alighting on flowering prunus branches issuing from rockwork, all on a black ground
29¼in. (74.5cm.) high
Provenance
Jacksonville Art Museum

Lot Essay

See a similar example formerly in the Sir William Bennett Collection, England, the Widener Collection, U.S.A and now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the West, ed. Junkichi Mayuyama, Tokyo, 1960, p. 110, pl.111; one in the Leonard Gow Collection included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935-1936, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Catalogue, no. 1684; and another from a private Portuguese Collection illustrated by Michel Beurdeley, The Chinese Collector Through The Centuries, Tokyo, 1966, p.196, fig.103