A LARGE AND RARE FAMILLE-VERTE 'ARROW' VASE AND STAND QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

the vase of hexagonal section, each side painted with roundels enclosing various Daoist figures, birds and flowers, a landscape scene and inscriptions, all reserved on a pale-green stippled ground painted with butterflies amidst flowers borne on leafy stems, two separately-molded chilong scaling the sides, the lower section with the Eight Immortals on a white ground,  the conforming stand with three registers of shaped openwork panels, the supports with varying brocade patterns and foliate motifs, divided by gilt ruyi and keyfret borders in relief (2)

Collection of John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York.
Duveen, New York, 1950.

Stephen W. Bushell and William M. Laffan, Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1907, Case D, no. 2, illus. pl. XIX.

There is a long body crack running the full length of the vase, across the base and up a short way on the opposite side. There is restoration to the rim. Both chilong dragons with restoration to losses. The stand with chips and frits to the rim, base and edges and restoration to losses on the interior corners of the openwork panels.
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