Massive Chinese famille-verte charger, Kangxi (1662-1722)

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Massive Chinese famille-verte charger, Kangxi (1662-1722)

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Description

Massive Chinese famille-verte charger, Kangxi (1662-1722), the centre decorated with a basket of flowers within a florifel roundel containing lotus, peony and dianthus, surrounded by a lobed band of flowerheads below radiating panels containing sprays of flowers, including peony, chrysanthemums and dianthus all issuing from rockwork, the cavetto similarly decorated with larger panels against a seeded green ground interspersed by flower heads with black scrolls, the rim with a wide band containing cartouches of ribboned Daoist emblems alternating with four bands of blossom heads against a black background, and differing bands of diapers, the underside of the rim with wide opposing bands of diapers against a green ground, and lattice interspersed by cartouches containing sprays of flowers; the reverse with artemisia leaf within double concentric circles.

Diameter: 50.5cm. (19 7/8 in.)

Condition:

Wear to some enamels, shallow fritting to underside of rim and shallow chips to footrim

Notes:
A similar charger sold at the ‘Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’ sale at Christie’s in New York 2016, previously in the John D. Rockefeller Collection, lot 875.

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Material and Technique Porcelain with enamel decoration in the famille verte palette
Origin Chinese
Diameter 50.5cm. (19 7/8 in.)

Product REF: JB61