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Subject:Famille verte vase - modern?
Posted By: JLim Fri, Oct 10, 2014 IP: 144.132.166.71
Hi all
For a mere $30 at this auction I got the pictured object: a nifty looking famille verte vase depicting some sort of immortals:
http://s1200.photobucket.com/user/jlim2397/library/Verte%20Vase?sort=3&page=1
I bought this thinking it was completely modern. But I had some idea that it might be Republican in date?
These are the factors:
- the object is absolutely unscratched, either to the enamel or to the white porcelain
- however, the enamels are strikingly iridescent, particularly the greens, which has always seemed to me a sign of age
- the shape of the object is pretty odd, with a cylindrical neck
- the painting is very, very neat; only through a lens can I confirm that it is handpainted and not printed on
- there is an odd transparent enamel covering the black lines on the object
- the red-orange bits are matte in texture, as befits iron red enamelling
- the underglaze blue is very grey in colour - some of the greyest I have seen
- the mark is of Kangxi, handpainted quite neatly with a handpainted double circle
- the footrim is white and very neatly trimmed in a rounded form.
Anyone feel this might have some age on it? Or should I (as I suspect) merely regard it as modern and decorative?
Rgds
JLim
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