A SET OF THREE LARGE CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE VASES

KANGXI 1662-1722

Each with a tall baluster-shaped body painted with four large panels enclosing baskets containing various blossoming flowers including peony, hydrangea, chrysanthemum and lotus, with smaller cartouches depicting lion dogs and qilin above and further floral sprays encircling the foot, all reserved on a pale green ground decorated with simple flowerheads and precious objects, with bands of prunus against a cracked-ice ground to the shoulders, the short necks flaring towards the rim and with stylised chrysanthemum scrolls, 52cm. (3)

Cf. W Bondy, Kang-Hsi: Eine Blüte-Epoche der Chinesischen Porzellankunst, pl.135 for two comparable vases and a baluster vase and cover with a similar design.