About the Work

Two hexagonal reticulated brushpots, finely decorated in enamel on the biscuit in the famille verte palet. Each side panel is pierced with an hexagonal lattice pattern, around a scene with figures involved in various leisure activities. Each panel is separated with a vertical green column with a diaper pattern in black – one pot with hatching the other with stylised clouds.

Above and below the panels is a decorative border with reserved panels with various auspicious symbols in coloured enamels. The thick projecting mouth rim, is decorated with a fret and meander border in red, along the top and outside. The pots have bracket feet on each corner, enamelled around the outside with a wave pattern in aubergine. The bottom has a thin transparent glaze with a Chinese character stamped in aubergine.

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Provenance

- J.P. Morgan Collection, 1911
- With the Duveen Brothers, 1915
- Harcourt Johnstone Collection, c. 1929
- W.F. van Heukelom Collection, 1937
- With Morpurgo Gallery, Amsterdam
- B.J.V. Van Hees Collection, The Netherlands 1900-1953 (depicted in an album on Huis de Ceder)
- Nieuwenhuys Collection, The Netherlands, 1991 (nr.16)
- Private Collection, Belgium 2025

Literature

London 1937
The Well-known collection of Fine Chinese Porcelain Of the Highest Quality: The Property of W.F. van Heukelom esq (decd) of Amsterdam, Auction Catalogue Sotheby’s & Co, London, 1937, p.52, no. 184.