A PAIR OF LARGE CHINESE IMARI OVOID JARS AND COVERS

KANGXI

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A PAIR OF LARGE CHINESE IMARI OVOID JARS AND COVERS
Kangxi
Each jar well painted in underglaze blue of inky tone, iron-red and gilding with a continuous scene of a pair of pheasant standing on ornamental rocks amidst a dense array of branches of blossoming peony and other flowers, between a band of petal lappets reserved on a foliate ground on the bulging lower body below and a foliate-decorated collar on the shoulder above, with a band of detached flower sprays on the short neck, each domed cover decorated en suite below the gilded figure of a seated Buddhistic lion
24¾in. (60.3cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

Compare the related jar with qilin and phoenix decoration and a ceramic knop illustrated by Regina Krahl and John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol. III, Qing Dynasty Porcelains, London, 1986, p. 937, no. 2968

A very closely related jar dated Kangxi was sold in these rooms November 29, 1990, lot 233. See, also, the pair of ormolu-mounted Yongzheng "Imari" baluster jars, also sold in these rooms, June 2, 1989, lot 437