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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE HUDSON VALLEY COLLECTION
A LARGE DOUCAI JAR AND COVER
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Details
A LARGE DOUCAI JAR AND COVER
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The jar is decorated with a continuous scene of an official and his wife seated at both ends of an altar table, while being greeted by officials in a fenced garden surrounded by garden rocks and plants, and an apocryphal Chenghua mark is on the base. The cover is decorated with a scene of three boys at play in a garden setting above a band of stylized cloud scroll.
17 in. (43.2 cm.) high
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The jar is decorated with a continuous scene of an official and his wife seated at both ends of an altar table, while being greeted by officials in a fenced garden surrounded by garden rocks and plants, and an apocryphal Chenghua mark is on the base. The cover is decorated with a scene of three boys at play in a garden setting above a band of stylized cloud scroll.
17 in. (43.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Christie's New York, 2 June 1979, lot 393.