A FAMILLE VERTE ROULEAU VASE WITH ORMOLU MOUNT

VASE, KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722); ORMOLU MOUNT, LOUIS XVI, C. 1775

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A FAMILLE VERTE ROULEAU VASE WITH ORMOLU MOUNT
VASE, KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722); ORMOLU MOUNT, LOUIS XVI, C. 1775
Painted with a scene from the Yuan dynasty novel, Xixiangji (Romance of the Western Chamber), depicting the young scholar Zhang Junrui seated on a stool before a bearded official attended by four court ladies, below a diaper border on the shoulder and landscape vignettes on the neck, mounted on an ormolu base
20¾ in. (52.7 cm.) high overall

Provenance

Leeds Collection.
American Art Association, November 1938, lot 186.
H. A. Fee Collection, Adrian, Michigan.

Lot Essay

The presentation of themes taken from novels or theatrical dramas was much in vogue during the Kangxi era. A rouleau vase painted in a similar style with a wedding scene set in the period of the Warring States is illustrated by M. Tregear and S. Vainker in Art Treasures in China, New York, 1994, p. 196.

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