Details
Enameled in the Kangxi famille verte style, the lower portion with lappets outlined in black against a green-ground of scrolling peony vine below a cell-pattern flower-head border with shaped cartouches of scholar's objects, the middle section painted iron-red with a scroll ground of lotus vine, the upper portion with similar black-bordered lappets enclosing a dotted ground with butterflies and various flowers, with apocraphyl four-character Kangxi reign mark
2338 in. (59.4 cm.) high, including fitments
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 6 July 2001, lot 299 (as Samson).
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
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