FAMILLE VERTE FIVE-LOBED CACHEPOT

This graceful design, with its leaves, berries and butterflies, was derived directly from antique Chinese Palace porcelain. Many porcelain pieces produced in China during the Kangxi Period (1662-1722) had famille verte decoration (this is its style) — painted in transparent enamel colors, pre-dominantly in shades of green and red. This large cachepot is a statement piece. The shape is adapted from a Chinese cachepot with five curved sides and standing on five rounded and delicate feet.