A CHINESE FAMILLE-VERTE BISCUIT 'LI BAI' WATER POT
Lots 1-99 are from the collection of Monique Mardellis, London

A CHINESE FAMILLE-VERTE BISCUIT 'LI BAI' WATER POT

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period

清康熙 五彩李白醉酒水盃

The finely potted water pot formed as a model of a reclining figure of Li Bai leaning on his wine jar, dappled robes splashed all over with green, aubergine and yellow glaze, covering his hand under his sleeves, with one arm up leaning against the wine jar, the wine jar covered in brown-glaze, a darker glaze to his beard, hair and shoes, the unglazed flat base revealing the biscuit body.

11.5cm high, 17cm wide

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PROVENANCE:

The Monique Mardellis Collection, London

來源：

倫敦莫妮克·馬德利斯女士 （Monique Mardellis）收藏

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NOTE:

Please refer to similar water pots with figures of Li Bai with the same hairstyle depicting two top knots, one from the collection of the collection of G.H Kingsley and W.A Evill was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Famille Verte from Private Collections, 2021, no. 1, pp. 4/5; another from the Bramblewood Collection is illustrated by Jeffrey P. Stamen, Cynthia Volk and Yibin Ni in A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-Era Chinese Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, no. 34, pp. 102/3; two further examples are illustrated by Gallerie Georges Petit in their auction of Ceramique de la Chine, The Collection de M. F. Allard, 1^st April 1925, nos. 391 and 392, pl. XII.