A FAMILLE-VERTE 'SERICULTURE AND RICE PRODUCTION' ROULEAU VASE
Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century
Extremely well painted with a large panel on either side, one depicting a scene of a stage of silk production with ladies shelving cocoons in a building set against a pine and bamboo lake-side landscape, the other with the sifting and storage of rice in a similar landscape, the panels reserved on a pale green ground with ascending dragons and stylized scrolling lotus, the rounded shoulder with landscape panels on a diaper cell ground below larger landscape panels to the neck and simple everted rim, each register divided by a raised bow-string band, attached to wood base (base not viewed).
17 1/8in (43.5cm) high
Footnotes:
清 十八/十九世紀 五彩開光耕織圖棒槌瓶

Provenance:
Otto Fukashima
John D. Rockefeller III
Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller
Ralph M. Chait Galleries Inc., New York, 14 January 1999, no. 17833
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hennage, Williamsburg, Virginia
The Colonial Williamsburg Museum, 1999 to present

來源：
Otto Fukashima舊藏
約翰·戴維森·洛克菲勒三世舊藏
美國副總統尼爾森·洛克菲勒舊藏
紐約Ralph M. Chait Galleries Inc.古董行，1999年1月14日，藏品編號17833
Joseph H. Hennage伉儷舊藏，弗吉尼亞州威廉斯堡
威廉斯堡殖民博物館，1999年至今

For another Rouleau vase in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, depicting similar scenes of silk production and rice farming on a similar dragon-filled reserve decorated green ground and dated to the Kangxi period (1662-1722) and like our example, also formerly in the John D. Rockefeller Collection, see www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/50839 (Accession No. 61.200.30).

Both scenes are based directly on woodblock prints from the Yuzhi Gengzhi Tu (By Imperial Command: Scenes of Plowing and Weaving) commissioned by the Kangxi Emperor. The text titles in this publication referring to the scenes depicted on our vase read: 'soaking rice seeds' (jinzhong) and 'harvesting silkworm cocoons' (xiacu).

See another example with scenes from the same series published by Anthony Derham and David Torbet Johnson, The Taft Museum, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Cincinatti, 1995, pp.637-638, pls. 1932-162 and Fig. 1.

PLEASE NOTE: This report describes, but may not be limited to, major condition issues for the lot.

In good condition overall, with small nicks and pinholes to mouth rim. Quality of painting is excellent. Color is pleasing and balanced. Now the vase is attached to a wooden base secured by four clamps carefully painted to match the design.