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A RARE FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND OVOID VASE
Lot 1588 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN

A RARE FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND OVOID VASE

KANGXI-YONGZHENG PERIOD (1662-1735)

Closed25 September 2020

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A RARE FAMILLE VERTE CORAL-GROUND OVOID VASE
KANGXI-YONGZHENG PERIOD (1662-1735)
The body is decorated with scenes of immortals reserved on shou (longevity) and fu (happiness) characters decorated with a diaper pattern, beneath fruit-shaped panels containing insects on the waisted neck, all on a coral ground.
18 ¼ in. (46.3 cm.) high

Louis Van der Heyden à Hauzeur (according to label).
Sotheby's Monaco, 9 February 1982, lot 134.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

Specialist note


The decorative device of setting a figural panel against a large character filled with a diaper pattern can be found on other Kangxi-period vases. For a rouleau vase with figural panels set against fu and shou characters in the Palace Museum, Beijing, see Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong. Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, 1989, no. 32.