Chinese Qing Style Famille Verte Porcelain Vase中国清式五彩瓷瓶
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Here we have a Chinese Qing Style famille verte porcelain vase, a handsome baluster-form decorative piece clearly inspired by Kangxi-era courtly figure painting. The shape is elegant and the narrative scenes—officials, attendants, ladies, children, and garden architecture—are designed to evoke the theatrical charm of early Qing porcelains.
But age and inspiration are not the same thing. The base carries the mark 'Da Qing Kangxi Nian Zhi,' or 'Made in the Kangxi years of the Great Qing,' yet the visible evidence points elsewhere. The palette includes tones that feel later than strict Kangxi famille verte, and the drawing, while lively, is a bit stiff and formulaic rather than effortlessly refined.
The vase is porcelain with overglaze enamels and an underglaze blue mark. It appears fairly thickly potted, with a bright, even white body and glossy surface more consistent with a modern workshop than a 17th- or early 18th-century kiln product. The figural scenes are decorative and ambitious, but they lack the subtle brush spontaneity and old-surface wear one hopes to see on a true period example.
Condition looks very good from the photographs, with only mild footrim wear visible and no major cracks or chips apparent. That helps it as a display object, though ironically perfect-looking surfaces can be a warning sign in this category.
Authenticity score: 12%. Auction estimate as a reproduction: $300 to $800. If genuinely Kangxi period, the value could be many times higher—easily $15,000 to $40,000 or more. Beautiful theater, but not quite a time machine.
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Item Report
Chinese Qing Style Famille Verte Porcelain Vase
中国清式五彩瓷瓶
By:Unknown modern workshop
Style:Chinese Qing Style / Kangxi-style famille verte reproduction
Origin:China
Materials:Porcelain with underglaze blue mark and overglaze enamels
Age:Late 20th to early 21st century
Condition:Very good (light wear to footrim, no major damage visible in provided images)
Value:Auction estimate as reproduction: $300-$800. If authentically Kangxi period and of strong quality: $15,000-$40,000+; this example does not support that attribution.
Maker's Marks / Writing:Underglaze blue six-character apocryphal mark in double circles: '大清康熙年製' — translated: 'Made in the Kangxi years of the Great Qing.'
Date:2026-04-10 14:26:49.138557
Description:
A large baluster-form porcelain vase painted with courtly terrace scenes, attendants, scholars, women, and children in a famille verte-type palette with turquoise grounds and iron-red cloud bands. The decoration borrows from Kangxi-era figural wares, but the enamels, drawing style, glossy surface, and apocryphal mark indicate a modern decorative reproduction rather than an early Qing period piece.
一件大型棒槌式瓷瓶，通体以庭院人物故事为饰，绘有侍从、文士、仕女与童子，采用近似五彩的设色，并配以松石绿地子和矾红如意云纹。其装饰借鉴康熙时期人物瓷风格，但釉上彩料、绘画笔意、较新的光泽表面以及伪托款识均表明其为现代装饰性仿制品，而非清早期真品。
Curator Questions
Curated by Jade
Assessment:
This appears to be a modern Chinese decorative vase in Qing Kangxi style rather than an authentic Kangxi-period work. The painted scenes are competently executed but somewhat stiff, the enamels include later-looking pinkish famille rose-type tones not appropriate to a strict Kangxi famille verte palette, and the porcelain body appears relatively thick and evenly white. The footrim shows only light artificial-looking wear, and the double-circle underglaze blue mark reading 'Da Qing Kangxi Nian Zhi' is almost certainly apocryphal. A word about copies.. Chinese export and domestic decorative ceramics in Kangxi and famille verte taste have been widely reproduced in the late 20th and 21st centuries, and this category is especially full of revival pieces and mark-bearing decorative copies. Still, it is an attractive, usable display vase with decent decorative value.
此瓶应为现代中国制作的清代康熙风格装饰瓶，而非真正的康熙朝器物。人物画面虽尚称工整，但线条与神态略显拘谨；彩料中可见偏粉的后期粉彩感色调，并不符合严格意义上的康熙五彩设色体系；胎体亦显得较厚，瓷白较均一。足圈仅见轻微且略显刻意的磨痕，底部青花双圈“大清康熙年制”款几可确定为后加寄托款。A word about copies.. 中国康熙风格及五彩风格的陈设瓷，在二十世纪后期至二十一世纪间被大量仿制，此类器物市场上尤其充斥各类复古件与带寄托款的装饰性仿品。尽管如此，此瓶仍具一定陈设观赏价值。
Individual Images:
whole vase front
whole vase reverse
side view of vase
neck of vase
upper half of vase
upper half reverse
detail of painted officials
detail of painted garden scene
base of vase with Kangxi mark
Provenance:
No provenance documentation shown in the images provided.
Condition:
Very good (light wear to footrim, no major damage visible in provided images)
Identification Score: 96%
The vessel form, palette, figural subject matter, and base mark clearly identify it as a Chinese Kangxi-style famille verte vase, though more likely a modern decorative example than a period one.
根据器形、设色、人物题材以及底部款识，可以较明确地判断其为一件中国康熙风格五彩人物瓶，只是更可能属于现代装饰性作品，而非到代古瓷。
Authenticity Score: 12%
The strongest evidence against period authenticity is the modern-looking enamel palette, including pinkish tones associated with later famille rose traditions, the stiff and repetitive figure drawing, the bright even glaze, the relatively clean and thickly potted body, and the apocryphal six-character Kangxi mark in double circles. The mark reads '大清康熙年製' ('Made in the Kangxi years of the Great Qing'), but the visible style and surface do not support a true Kangxi date.
反对其到代真实性的主要证据包括：彩料观感偏现代，其中带有更接近后期粉彩体系的粉润色调；人物造型与神态略显僵硬重复；釉面光亮而过于均匀；胎体显得较厚且整体过于洁白；以及双圈内六字“康熙”款明显属于寄托款。该款识为“大清康熙年製”，意为“制于大清康熙年间”，但从现见风格与表面状态来看，并不支持真正康熙朝断代。
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Keywords
Chinese vase, Qing style, Kangxi style, famille verte, porcelain, figural scene, court scene, apocryphal Kangxi mark, modern reproduction, China
中国瓷瓶, 清式, 康熙风格, 五彩, 瓷器, 人物纹, 庭院人物, 寄托康熙款, 现代仿制, 中国
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