Rare vase en porcelaine de la famille verte, panlongzun, Chine, Dynastie Qing, Époque Kangxi (1662-1722). Estimate €25,000 – €30,000 ($28,098 - $33,717). Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015
The vase is painted above the foot with a band of four auspicious emblems and a carp leaping from waves. The shoulders are applied with a fierce sinuous chilong, glazed in pale aubergine and wrapped around the base of the tall cylindrical neck. There is an apocryphal Chenghua mark to the base; small restorations. 8 ½ in. (21.6 cm.) high
Provenance: The Collection of Sir Alfred Aykroyd Bt. (1894-1965).
Notes: The form of this vase is rare and is often related to peachbloom-glazed panlong zun of the same period belonging to a group of eight peachbloom wares for the scholar's desk, the 'Eight Great Numbers', ba da ma, of which a set is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989 (rev. ed.), p. 237.
Another similar example is illustrated by The Chinese Porcelain Company in the catalogue The Art of the Qing Potter: Important Chinese Export Porcelain, New York, 1997, no. 21, p. 38-39.
A RARE FAMILLE VERTE MALLET-FORM VASE, PANLONGZUN, CHINA, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Christie's. ART D'ASIE, 9 June 2015, Paris