A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE ROULEAU VASES

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE VERTE ROULEAU VASES
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Each vase has a bow-string band encircling the neck and is decorated allover with butterflies below a blue scroll band on the upright rim. A double circle in underglaze blue is on the base.
18 in. (45.8 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A very similar design of clusters of butterflies delicately picked out in blue and white, iron-red, green, yellow and iron-red enamels, can be seen on a tapering vase dated to the Kangxi period in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 38 - Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 134, no. 122.

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