A BLUE AND WHITE JARDINIÈRE
A BLUE AND WHITE JARDINIÈRE

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A BLUE AND WHITE JARDINIÈRE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
One side of the deep body is finely decorated in bright underglaze-blue with a panel containing a lively, open-jawed, four-clawed dragon reaching for a large tasseled pearl beside a vase and ruyi scepter amidst precious objects, and the other side is decorated with a serrated leaf-shaped cartouche containing a bird perched on rocks looking at a butterfly and insects in flight amidst peonies and chrysanthemum.
9 ¼ in. (23.6 cm.) diam.

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