A Large and Finely Decorated 'Famille-Verte' 'Yen-Yen' Vase Qing dynasty, Kangxi period

the gracefully attenuated baluster body with wide trumpet neck and flared foot, painted with round and square panels of birds-and-flowers, carp and marine dragons on waves, each panel with a poetic inscription, all on a green ground decorated with butterflies and lotus scrolls, diaper band at the shoulder with four shaped reserves enclosing Buddhist lions, below a band of floral scrolls on 'fish roe'-ground, the underside of the lip with lotus blossoms on a diaper ground, the inside of the rim with bands of seasonal flowers and ruyi-head, edge of foot with jeweled lotus-petal border

The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Christie's New York, 21st September 2000, lot 325.

This vase has repaired breaks to the body and mouth, all of it visible via repaintings and in-painting to the cracks. The gilt writing has mostly worn off, though some of it is still visible. The shoulder with wear and chips to the aubergine enamel. A few scattered scratches and minor surface abrasions throughout.
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The present vase is exceptional for its magnificent size. Vases of this type were typically made on the wheel in three parts with the join between the neck and the body slightly raised and visible. Two closely comparable vases of similar size and decoration were sold in these rooms, the first from the Estate of Antoinette H. van Slyke, 18th-19th April 1989, lot 307, and the other, 23rd September 1995, lot 448. 

A slightly larger vase (30 in.), of similar form and decoration, formerly in the collects ion of J. Pierpont Morgan, was sold at Christie's New York, 23rd March 1995, lot 365.

A smaller yen-yen vase of related form and painted decoration, formerly in the collects ions of John James, Esq., and Sir Trevor Lawrence, and currently in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, is illustrated in Maria Antonia Pinto de Matos, Chinese Porcelain in the Calouste Gulbenkian collects ion, Lisbon, 2003, pl. 18; and another from the Salting Bequest to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated in Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics. Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, London, 1986, pl. 82.