A large Chinese famille verte baluster vase and a wucai cover A large Chinese famille verte baluster vase and a wucai cover A large Chinese famille verte baluster vase and a wucai cover A large Chinese famille verte baluster vase and a wucai cover A large Chinese famille verte baluster vase and a wucai cover

A large Chinese famille verte baluster vase and a wucai cover

Reference: ART1005919

The jar is finely decorated with large panels enclosing flower baskets interspersed with smaller cartouches enclosing auspicious beasts, all reserved on a ground of precious objects and flower heads. The foot is decorated with panels enclosing flowers. The associated wucai cover is decorated with boys at play.

Catalogue notes: Compare a similar baluster vase decorated with figural and auspicious beast panels sold at Christie's London, 15 May 2018, lot 245.

Compare other baluster vases and covers, two from the Leonard Gow collection, illustrated in the Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935-1936, Royal Academy of Arts, London, no. 1817 & 1829, pl. 172, pp. 152-153, and by R. L. Hobson in "The Leonard Gow Collection of Chinese Porcelain", no. 146, colour pl. XXXI, p. 42-43. A further vase is in the Porcelain Collection of Augustus the Strong, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, in Dresden, published in Eva Ströber in "La Maladie de Porcelaine", Leipzig, 2001, no. 26, pp. 66-67.