A LARGE FAMILLE VERTE BALUSTER VASE AND COVER

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A LARGE FAMILLE VERTE BALUSTER VASE AND COVER
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The vase is decorated with rectangular, leaf, fan, ruyi and pomegranate-shaped panels depicting various figural scenes, including the Emperor Yao and his attendants meeting the ox herder Xu You; a scholar dreaming about meeting a monk and his attendant; a general standing in front of his tiger skin-covered chair; a scholar and fisherman; and various panels depicting a tiger, a qilin and a bixie, as well as various panels with precious objects, flowers and landscapes. The panels are reserved on a green ground decorated with scattered flower heads. The domed cover is painted with three floral panels and has a flower bud finial.
23 5/8 in. (60 cm.) high

Provenance

From the collection of the Duke of Leinster.

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Lot Essay

A similar baluster vase and cover with figural and landscape panels, in the collection of Augustus the Strong, now part of the Porcelain Collection, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, in Dresden, acquired in May 1722 from the dealer Madame Bassetouche, is illustrated by Eva Ströber in La Maladie de Porcelaine, Leipzig, 2001, no. 26, pp. 66-67. Two others, from the collection of Dr. Leonard Gow, are illustrated by The Earl of Lytton, Sir William Llewellyn and Laurence Binyon in the Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935-1936, Royal Academy of Arts, London, no. 1817 & 1829, pl. 172, pp. 152-153. One of a pair is illustrated by R.L. Hobson C.B. in The Leonard Gow Collection of Chinese Porcelain, no. 146, colour pl. XXXI, p. 42-43.

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