拍品 77
77
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A FAMILLE VERTE WALL CISTERN AND COVER of lobed pear shape with a flat back, the rim applied with two dragon-carp flanking a shell, the base with a pierced mask spout, enamelled with a brace of exotic birds perched on a blossoming prunus branch issuing from rockwork, above a broad diaper band with two cartouches containing phoenix, the domed cover with a peony (minor old repair), Kangxi

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A FAMILLE VERTE WALL CISTERN AND COVER of lobed pear shape with a flat back, the rim applied with two dragon-carp flanking a shell, the base with a pierced mask spout, enamelled with a brace of exotic birds perched on a blossoming prunus branch issuing from rockwork, above a broad diaper band with two cartouches containing phoenix, the domed cover with a peony (minor old repair), Kangxi
41.8cm. high

拍品專文

Cf. J. Leite, op. cit., p.35, colour pl.5, for a very similar famille verte wall cistern but with different decoration; D. S. Howard, op. cit., p.181, no.B5, illustrating an armorial Imari cistern of this shape but lacking the shell and dragon back; D. Howard and J. Ayers, op. cit., vol.I, p.71, no.31, for an unfluted example in blue and white which was formerly in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Rafi Y. Mottahedeh