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Mark Powley Fine Chinese Art

A seated official
China
Kangxi (1662-1723)
Height: 18.5 cm

A seated official, decorated in famille verte on the biscuit and wearing a black cap and a robe decorated with cracked ice and prunus flowers, holding a ruyi scepter to his chest, on a hexagonal base the front three sides decorated with a geometric pattern either side of a raised relief shou medallion, the reverse with a lake view in black under a clear lead glaze.

Provenance: Ralph M Chait

For similar examples see Famille Verte, Chinese Porcelain in Green Enamels by Christiaan J.A. Jorg, pages 122-3, numbers 110 and 111.

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