KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A RARE FAMILLE VERTE 'GENGZHITU' ROULEAU VASE
KANGXI (1662-1722)
Enamelled on one side with a rectangular panel depicting labourers planting rows of rice sprouts in the paddy-fields below a six-line inscription and two seals, the other side with a similar panel depicting ladies and boys arranging silkworms on trays above a six-line inscription and two seals, the shoulder with scrolling peony on a seeded green ground, and the cylindrical neck with a continuous landscape, restored
17½ in. (44.4 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The scenes on the flask are derived from the woodblock prints in Yuzhi Gengzhi Tu, 'Imperial Illustrations of Tilling and Weaving'.
These illustrations were designed by Jiao Bingzhen to acompany a series of poems composed by the Kangxi Emperor on tilling and weaving, and published around 1697.

Compare a vase in the Palace Museum, Beijing, painted with different scenes derived from the Gengzhitu prints, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum -38- Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 67.

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