JIE RUI TANG COLLECTION

  • HOME

  • ABOUT

  • VIEW BY MEDIUM

  • VIEW BY OBJECT TYPE

  • BY ITEM

  • THE BOOK

  • CONTACT

  • More

    ALL IMAGES, TEXT, AND DEPICTED OBJECTS COPYRIGHT JIE RUI TANG COLLECTION © 2016. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

    1341-2

    1341-2

    1341-6

    1341-6

    1341-1

    1341-1

    1/6

    FAMILLE VERTE BOWL
    DESCRIPTION BELOW

    CATALOGUE NUMBER 1341

    FAMILLE VERTE BOWL

    KANGXI PERIOD (1661-1722) WITH SIX-CHARACTER CHENGHUA MARK

    DIMENSIONS

    Diameter: 7 ½ inches

     

    PROVENANCE

    • Morgan Family Collection, no. 1261

    • St. Louis Art Museum, no. 173:15

    • Marchant, Ltd., London, 2005

     

    CATALOGUE NOTES

    A famille verte deep flared bowl, decorated on the exterior with rectangular shaped panels painted with peacocks on a rock promontory, looking up at the moon in a mountainous river landscape, all on a floral blue enamel flower head ground and decorated with a lute, bell, wind instruments and cymbals. The Interior painted in the well with a yellow chilong dragon, encircled by floral reserves of  orchid, prunus, chrysanthemum, cymbidium and orchid on blue enamel reserves on an aubergine enamel diaper ground. The foot rim with a scroll design. The underside with a six-character mark of Chenghua in underglaze blue within a double ring.