Lot 23: THREE POLYCHROME VESSELS The vase and deep cup, Kangxi; the saucer, Yongzheng

THREE POLYCHROME VESSELS

The vase and deep cup, Kangxi; the saucer, Yongzheng

Comprising a slender cylindrical vase very slightly tapering to the foot and with a bulbous reduced neck, the ogival panels painted in
famille-verte enamels with floral garden vignettes all reserved against a powder-blue ground with traces of gilt floral scrolling designs; a small
famille-rose-enameled powder-blue ground saucer dish decorated with three reserved panels depicting the
sanduo (peach, pomegranate and finger citron), the reverse plain; and a rare
verte-imari deep cup with steep flaring sides supported on a slightly reduced short foot ring, decorated in underglaze blue with conjoined stylized floral scroll panels below four flower groupings with the addition of enamel colors of shades of iron red, gilt, black, and green to enhance the decoration with hillocks, fences, and further floral groupings below a thin leafy floret band at the exterior and interior rim, a chrysanthemum spray in underglaze blue at the center with enamel highlights, the slightly convex base with an underglaze blue encircled aster or daisy spray. (3)


vase: 5 1/4in (13.3cm) high
saucer: 4 3/16in (10.6cm) diam
cup: 2 5/8in (6.8cm) high

Vase: The neck has been reduced and the gilding is worn in places.


saucer: A few minor pinprick bubbles to the exterior.


deep cup A faint hairline crack at the rim (approx. 0.8cm). Some pinprick air bubbles to the interior but unobtrusive. The foot has been slightly polished down. A very rare and good example of this type.

清康熙 灑藍釉開光花石圖瓶 及伊萬里風格花卉圖小杯

清雍正 灑藍釉地粉彩開光三多圖小盤



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York

Purchase by subscription, 1879

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present




來源：

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904)，紐約

會費購藏，1879 年

大都會藝術博物館，1879 年迄今



For three powder-blue-ground
famille-verte vases of slightly larger size than the present example, see Henry Trubner,
American Exhibitions of Chinese Art, Los Angeles County Museum, 1952, p.114, nos.352-353, from the Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Worch Collection, New York. Another pair of bottle vases are illustrated in
Important Chinese Export Porcelain from Kangxi to Jiaqing, The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, 1999, pp.28-29, no.14, where the authors note that the brilliant tone and depth of the powder-blue glaze was first discovered in the Kangxi period and that the process required glazing the colored enamels first, and while the body was still humid, the painter would blow the cobalt-blue glaze through a bamboo tube, covered with gauze.

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