A CHINESE IMARI JARDINIÈRE

KANGXI PERIOD

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A CHINESE IMARI JARDINIÈRE
Kangxi period
Of octagonal outline with eight short bracket feet, each side painted with leafy flowering plants growing beside grasses and smaller flowers, some with pheasants perched on rocks alongside, all beneath a flat everted rim decorated with flowerheads and ruyi heads on an iron-red trellis ground
14¼in. (36.2cm.) wide

Lot Essay

A jardinière of this form was made in blue and white for Sir Henry Johnson, a wealthy Blackwall shipbuilder, in the late 1690's, one of the first armorial pieces produced for the English market. See D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, pp. 36 and 164

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