CATALOGUE NUMBER 1421

FAMILLE VERTE MOLDED BOWL

KANGXI PERIOD (1661-1722)

DIMENSIONS

Diameter: 7 ⅞ inches

 

PROVENANCE

• Christie's New York, March 30, 2004, lot 403

• Tonying & Company, Inc., New York

 

CATALOGUE NOTES

A famille verte molded bowl. The rounded sides molded and painted with phoenixes, cranes, ducks, and numerous other birds in flight, swimming or standing amidst the rocks and grasses indicating the banks of a lake above the foot, with an eight-character mark in underglaze blue and a copper-red seal mark within a double circle on the base.