Lot 353
  • 353

A FAMILLE-VERTE 'BOYS' ROULEAU VASE QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Height 18 in., 45.7 cm
the cylindrical body brightly enameled with boys at play, one with hands clasped over the eyes of a playmate, observed by an older boy wearing an official's robe and clasping a ruyi scepter, a small boy crouching over in laughter, as another, bearing a lotus-form lantern, happily tickles the central figure with a twig, all set between a band of lappets encircling the base and an elaborate cloud-collar band enclosing crane medallions on a pale-green stippled ground with fruiting peach boughs and florets, the shoulder with stylized chrysanthemum reserved on a diaper ground, the slender neck with a raised chevron filet, repeated at the rim

Provenance

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
Michael B. Weisbrod Inc., New York. 

Exhibited

Children in Chinese Art, China Institute, New York, 1991.

Condition

With a star crack to the base, 3 spokes of which run up the foot halfway into the green and red lappet band. With an approx 1.6 cm glaze flake at the mouth rim. With scattered glaze gaps at the shoulder and bubbling of the glaze. With additional firing imperfections including a glaze flaw at the foot exterior approx. 1.8 cm wide, and surface scratches. The base with labels affixed.
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