Antique Chinese Famille Verte Wucai Warrior Jar Kangxi Mark Late Qing Republic Wedgwood Marked CANOVA

Marked CANOVA

or traditional schemes

There is some minor splitting

and lavish gilded accents – reflects the enduring influence of Japanese design on the finest English ceramics of the 19th and early 20th centuries

Antique Chinese Famille Verte Wucai Warrior Jar Kangxi Mark Late Qing Republic Wedgwood Marked CANOVAA decorative Chinese porcelain ovoid jar in the famille verte (wucai) palette, the rounded body painted in bright iron red, green, blue, yellow and aubergine enamels with a continuous scene of warriors on horseback doing battle across a landscape with fluttering banners. The shoulder and foot are bordered with stylised petal and key fret bands. The subject is in the manner of the popular military romances such as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The