A LARGE FAMILLE VERTE WALL FOUNTAIN AND COVER

KANGXI PERIOD

Details

A LARGE FAMILLE VERTE WALL FOUNTAIN AND COVER
KANGXI PERIOD
Of pear shape with stepped cover, brightly enamelled with three elegant ladies conversing with a young boy on a terrace, pavilions in the background, the spout formed as a Buddhistic lion mask
22 in. (55.9 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 16 November 1998, lot 367

Lot Essay

Wall fountains of this kind are clearly based on some European prototype, probably metal and therefore possibly brass or bullion for the Dutch market, since these tend to date to the late 17th Century, when there was still a flourishing export market in famille verte to Holland through the V.O.C. There is no evidence that fountains of this particular form were ever intended to have basins underneath them to catch water or wine.

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