A RARE FAMILLE-VERTE BISCUIT 'LANDSCAPE' ROULEAU VASE QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD well-painted and enameled in shades of green, blue and aubergine with a continuous scene of scholars in an idyllic mountainous landscape, some seated in their studios, one on horseback on a grassy bank, a pair conversing on a hill, the sky and water left in the biscuit, the shoulder with lobed medallions enclosing auspicious objects on a scrollwork ground, the neck with a further landscape scene, all between petal lappets encircling the base and bands of keyfret, ruyi and scrolls above, the base with a black-enameled shou character within a circular impression, mounted on a revolving base (2) Height 16 1/2 in., 42 cm Read Condition Report Read Condition Report Register or Log-in to view condition report Or Saleroom Notice Provenance Collection of Richard Bennett (b. 1849), Esq. Edgar Gorer, London, 1911. M. Parish-Watson, New York. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874-1960). John D. Rockefeller, III (1906-1978). Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 2nd February 1976. Exhibited The Grand Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974-1975, cat. no. 80. Dreicer & Co., New York, circa 1911 Literature Catalogue of the Collection of Old Chinese Porcelains formed by Richard Bennett Esq., London, 1911, cat. no. 316. Edgar Gorer and J. F. Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, vol. 1, London, 1911, pl. 105.
A RARE FAMILLE-VERTE BISCUIT 'LANDSCAPE' ROULEAU VASE QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD well-painted and enameled in shades of green, blue and aubergine with a continuous scene of scholars in an idyllic mountainous landscape, some seated in their studios, one on horseback on a grassy bank, a pair conversing on a hill, the sky and water left in the biscuit, the shoulder with lobed medallions enclosing auspicious objects on a scrollwork ground, the neck with a further landscape scene, all between petal lappets encircling the base and bands of keyfret, ruyi and scrolls above, the base with a black-enameled shou character within a circular impression, mounted on a revolving base (2) Height 16 1/2 in., 42 cm Read Condition Report Read Condition Report Register or Log-in to view condition report Or Saleroom Notice Provenance Collection of Richard Bennett (b. 1849), Esq. Edgar Gorer, London, 1911. M. Parish-Watson, New York. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874-1960). John D. Rockefeller, III (1906-1978). Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 2nd February 1976. Exhibited The Grand Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1974-1975, cat. no. 80. Dreicer & Co., New York, circa 1911 Literature Catalogue of the Collection of Old Chinese Porcelains formed by Richard Bennett Esq., London, 1911, cat. no. 316. Edgar Gorer and J. F. Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, vol. 1, London, 1911, pl. 105.
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