Lot Essay
A very similar jar and cover is illustrated by Walter Bondy, Kang-Hsi, Munchen, 1923, p. 166; and another in famille verte enamels is illustrated by Zimmermann, Chinesisches Porzellan, Leipzig, 1923, p. 115
Details
A RARE FAMILLE JAUNE JAR AND COVER
KANGXI
Of ribbed ovoid form with domed cover surmounted by bud finial, decorated with an allover pattern of flower scroll picked out in green enamel with the details drawn in black, reserved on a yellow ground, the finial picked out in iron-red, cover and base engraved with the Johanneum script mark N=134I--4 3/4in. (12.2cm.) high
KANGXI
Of ribbed ovoid form with domed cover surmounted by bud finial, decorated with an allover pattern of flower scroll picked out in green enamel with the details drawn in black, reserved on a yellow ground, the finial picked out in iron-red, cover and base engraved with the Johanneum script mark N=134I--4 3/4in. (12.2cm.) high
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, March 14-April 27, 1952, p. 110, no. 333