CATALOGUE NUMBER 0059

LARGE FAMILLE VERTE 

MONTIETH BOWL
KANGXI PERIOD (1661-1722)

DIMENSIONS

Diameter: 13 inches

 

PROVENANCE

Cohen and Cohen, London, 1995

 

CATALOGUE NOTES

Very finely painted with alternating panels of beautiful ladies playing chinese instruments and landscape or 100 antiques designs. The shape of the bowl (derived from a silver original for cooling wine glasses, named after the earl of Montieth) is very cleverly echoed in the painting design, with a generous use in the interior of buddhist symbolism. Similar in form to examples in the Mottakeda Collection and Groninger Museum.