A LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE BALUSTER VASE AND COVER

KANGXI 1662-1722

The body decorated with shaped panels on a green prunus flowerhead ground, variously containing the Emperor Yao and his attendants meeting Xu You, a scholar sleeping and dreaming, a general standing before his tiger skin covered chair and other scenes of scholars, fishermen, mythical beasts and precious objects, the cover with three leaf-shaped panels of flowers, rockwork and insects, 60.1cm. (2)

Provenance: from the collection of the Duke of Leinster.

Cf. E Ströber, La Maladie de Porcelaine, pp.66-67 no.26 for a closely related baluster vase and cover; see also R L Hobson, The Leonard Gow Collection of Chinese Porcelain, pp.42-43 no.146, col. pl. XXXI for another famille verte vase with a similar design.