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A RARE LARGE BLUE AND WHITE JAR AND COVER
KANGXI FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD
The baluster-form jar decorated in shades of underglaze blue with an allover pattern of lotus scroll borne on cloud-like leafy tendrils, and superimposed by four shou character roundels on the shoulder, with lappets encircling the foot and neck and ruyi and dentil borders on the shoulder, the pattern repeated on the the high, domed cover surmounted by a large bud finial, the everted rim decorated with a prunus-chevron band
24½in. (62.3cm.) high
KANGXI FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD
The baluster-form jar decorated in shades of underglaze blue with an allover pattern of lotus scroll borne on cloud-like leafy tendrils, and superimposed by four shou character roundels on the shoulder, with lappets encircling the foot and neck and ruyi and dentil borders on the shoulder, the pattern repeated on the the high, domed cover surmounted by a large bud finial, the everted rim decorated with a prunus-chevron band
24½in. (62.3cm.) high
Literature
The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Hong Kong 1995, no. 50