A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE LOBED BALUSTER JAR AND COVER

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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE LOBED BALUSTER JAR AND COVER
KANGXI

The sides molded with eight vertical panels, each decorated with one of four different flowering branches issuing from ornamental rocks, with birds either perched on or in flight amidst the branches, below narrow reserves of flowers on the short neck, and all within foliate borders, the molded cover with notched rim and similarly decorated below a blue bud knop (hair crack, knop off and restuck, fritting)
22¼in. (56.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare a similar blue and white jar and cover, illustrated in Chinese Porcelains in the Hermitage Collection, Leningrad, 1977, p. 100, Catalogue, no. 130; and a pair from the Edward R. Bacon Collection illustrated by John Goetz, Catalogue of Chinese Art Objects, New York, 1919, pl. XL, no. 348