SMALL AND RARE FAMILLE VERTE BALUSTER VASE  KANGXI PERIOD (1...

Hammer

£17,000

SMALL AND RARE FAMILLE VERTE BALUSTER VASE 
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
康熙神仙人物圖紋瓶
beautiful and sophisticated with a continuous narrative decoration on the outside of the vase depicting a gathering of immortals within  a fenced garden all amongst  pine trees and rocks. The shoulder is painted with a trefoil-ground border and the flaring neck decorated with a fisherman in a landscape - all in the famille verte palette.
27.7cm high

NOTE: The scene is very similar to that on Lot 31 and remains problematic in its identification. However as with the bitong a  number of the figures are easily identifiable - He He Twins, Xiao Shi and Nong Yu.

PROVENANCE: Acquired from Bonhams, Bond Street “Fine Chinese Art”,  14 May 2009, Lot 11. 

Formerly The Jarras Collection, England. Formed over the ten years before the sales, the first part of which, comprising 113 lots, was sold by Christie's in June  1990. There was also a sale at Bonhams in 2009 following the second part of the sale at Christie’s Hong Kong in 1991.

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A small section of the rim has been well repaired after being broken into several pieces.