Chinese Famille Vert Blue-Ground Planter with Multiple Landscape Cartooges

Description

A beautiful and quite large 19th century famille vert blue-ground planter with gorgeous landscape cartooges and floral scenes. This planter is exquisitely hand painted with elaborate Chinese panel cartooges of four main landscape scenes, as well as a multitude of other exceptionally painted Chinese inspired scenes. The panels are against a dark-blue ground illuminating the vibrate white panels. The cartooges include scenes of mountains, villages, streams, waterfalls, birds, flowers, fish, and other Chinese inspired artifacts. Each aspect of this planter represents a different image of the Chinese culture, and together, they represent the Chinese culture as a whole. Provenance: Private american collection. Purchased in London in 1960s. China, circa 1850.

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