A FINE PAIR OF POWDER-BLUE-GROUND FAMILLE VERTE ROULEAU VASES

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A FINE PAIR OF POWDER-BLUE-GROUND FAMILLE VERTE ROULEAU VASES
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The vases are decorated with lobed panels decorated with antiques, a mountainous landscape, and two panels of flowers, one of peony growing behind blue rocks below a bird in flight, the other with crabapple growing amidst rocks, all reserved on a powder-blue ground decorated in gilt with floral designs.
17 in. (43 cm.) high, two cloth boxes

Provenance

Henry Clay Frick Collection.
J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) Collection.
James Garland collection.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

Literature

Catalogue of The Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, New York, 1904, pp. 2-3, pl. III.

Exhibited

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, early 1900s.

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Lot Essay

The present vases are from the same set as the jar decorated with panels of birds sold at Christie's New York, 22-23 March 2018, lot 763, and are illustrated in the same photograph in Catalogue of The Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, New York, 1904, pp. 2-3, pl. III. (fig. 1)

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