18TH-19TH CENTURY

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A FAMILLE VERTE GILT-DECORATED POWDER BLUE-GROUND ROULEAU VASE
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The tall vase is decorated with four lobed panels on a powder-blue ground decorated with gilt chrysanthemums, the panels depicting elegant ladies in a garden scene enjoying various leisurely pursuits including playing with a kitten. The shoulder and lower body are each decorated with four lobed cartouches and the neck with two fan-shaped cartouches, enclosing various landscapes, birds and mythical beasts.
18 in. (45.7 cm.) high

Provenance

The Collection of Marco Daniel (d. 1978), San Francisco.

Lot Essay

Compare the Kangxi-period rouleau vase similarly decorated with shaped panels of elegant ladies at leisurely pursuits rendered in famille verte enamels against a gilt-decorated power-blue ground, sold at Christie’s New York, 17 March 2017, lot 1258. See, also, the pair of similarly decorated Kangxi rouleau vases, but with panels of birds of flowers, formerly in the Jakob Goldschmidt Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 24 March 2004, lot 205, and the pair decorated with panels of antiques, birds and flowers, and landscapes, formerly in the collections of Henry Clay Frick, J. P. Morgan and James Garland, sold at Christie’s New York, 13-14 September 2018, lot 1355.

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