DEACCESSIONED FROM THE COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION TO BENEFIT THE JOSEPH H. AND JUNE S. HENNAGE ACQUISITION FUND A FAMILLE-VERTE 'SERICULTURE AND RICE PRODUCTION' ROULEAU VASEQing 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 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 Imperialmand: Scenes of Plowing and Weaving) missioned 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.