Lot 95: A LARGE SAMSON FAMILLE-VERTE JARDINIÈRE Paris, 19th century

A LARGE SAMSON FAMILLE-VERTE JARDINIÈRE

Paris, 19th century

Painted in the
famille-verte tradition with colorful enamels of blue, yellow, aubergine, green, iron red and gilt with four large tapering rectangular 'lotus pond' panels, three with birds, one with a dragonfly, and divided by smaller panels of birds amidst prunus sprays and bordered by a phoenix-headed sinuous dragon to each side and a descending bat above, a wide floral band encircling the foot, and two cell bands divided by a raised bowstring band encircle the upper body below the slightly incurving unglazed rim and white-glazed interior, all supported on a mostly unglazed wide rounded wedge-shaped foot, the flat unglazed base with a small iron-red Samson mark.


16 3/8in (41.6cm) diam

Generally, in excellent overall condition. A few minor iron-spots and air bubble pinpricks but unobtrusive.

巴黎 十九世紀 Samson製五彩開光花鳥圖缸



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Bequest of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1960

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1960-present




來源：

John D. Rockefeller Jr. 遺贈，1960 年

大都會藝術博物館，1960 年迄今



Compare with a related
famille-verte jardinière sold at Christie's New York, 'Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from The Metropolitan Museum of Art', 22 September 2016, lot 1963 and called possibly Samson.

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