A PAIR OF RARE BLUE AND WHITE BARREL-FORM JARS AND COVERS

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A PAIR OF RARE BLUE AND WHITE BARREL-FORM JARS AND COVERS
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Each is decorated with two large rectangular panels depicting various scenes of figures in a terraced garden. The scenes are separated by gilded, molded, mask-form loop handles, and bordered above and below by bands of bosses. The cover is decorated on the flat top with a diaper band encircling the gilded biscuit lion-form finial.
8 in. (22.2 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, circa 1972.

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Lot Essay

Compare a related blue and white barrel-form jar, with similar decoration, and gilt fu-dog finial, illustrated by C.J.A. Jörg in Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, London, 1997, p. 110, pl. 106, where Jörg notes that these barrel-form or drum-shaped jars were referred to as a 'candy pot' by Dutch collectors.

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