Lot Essay
No other form of this decoration appears to have been published.
Kangxi-marked washers of this form are recorded, cf. a celadon-glazed washer sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 735; and a famille verte decorated washer reserved on a celadon ground included in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramcs IV, Qing Dynasty, pl. 108.
It is very rare to find this palette in the Kangxi period. However, this technique is an extention of the famille noire decorative style, but only employs green enamels which when layered with black, produces a particularly lustrous effect which was not easy to achieve and which accounts for the rarity of pieces produced in this technique in the later Yongzheng and Qianlong periods. Yongzheng marked examples include a saucer dish and a globular bottle vase, in the Baur Collection, Geneva, illustrated by Ayers in the Catalogue, vol. IV, no. A568-69; and to the vase sold in these Rooms, 26 September 1989, lot 630. Qianlong-marked examples include the large dish sold in our London Rooms, 5 June 1995, lot 210; and a smaller dish of related motif sold in our New York Rooms, 29 November 1990, lot 292.
Kangxi-marked washers of this form are recorded, cf. a celadon-glazed washer sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 735; and a famille verte decorated washer reserved on a celadon ground included in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramcs IV, Qing Dynasty, pl. 108.
It is very rare to find this palette in the Kangxi period. However, this technique is an extention of the famille noire decorative style, but only employs green enamels which when layered with black, produces a particularly lustrous effect which was not easy to achieve and which accounts for the rarity of pieces produced in this technique in the later Yongzheng and Qianlong periods. Yongzheng marked examples include a saucer dish and a globular bottle vase, in the Baur Collection, Geneva, illustrated by Ayers in the Catalogue, vol. IV, no. A568-69; and to the vase sold in these Rooms, 26 September 1989, lot 630. Qianlong-marked examples include the large dish sold in our London Rooms, 5 June 1995, lot 210; and a smaller dish of related motif sold in our New York Rooms, 29 November 1990, lot 292.