QING BLUE AND WHITE
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EDGAR AND HEDWIG WORCH
TWO LARGE BLUE AND WHITE OVOID JARS
Details
TWO LARGE BLUE AND WHITE OVOID JARS
KANGXI
Each painted in vivid tones of underglaze blue with four large alternating panels of river landscape scenes and scholar's objects and 'precious things', reserved on a dense ground of cash diaper, all below the waisted neck decorated with a band of demi-chrysanthemum and a band of prunus branch and interlocking cash panels, body cracks--17½ and 16 3/4in. (44.2 and 42.5cm.) high (2)
KANGXI
Each painted in vivid tones of underglaze blue with four large alternating panels of river landscape scenes and scholar's objects and 'precious things', reserved on a dense ground of cash diaper, all below the waisted neck decorated with a band of demi-chrysanthemum and a band of prunus branch and interlocking cash panels, body cracks--17½ and 16 3/4in. (44.2 and 42.5cm.) high (2)
Literature
Walter Bondy, Kang-Hsi, Munchen, 1923, pl. 112 (the jar on the right)