A RARE SET OF THREE MONOCHROME OVOID JARS

QING MONOCHROMES

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A RARE SET OF THREE MONOCHROME OVOID JARS
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

One glazed imperial yellow, one apple green and the other aubergine, each with a short foot, tapering body, rounded shoulder and short, waisted neck, a thin rib just below the widest part of the body visible under the remarkably even glaze to indicate the luting line, interior glazed white, some cracks and fritting--8½in. (21.5cm.) high, carved wood covers with jade insets, wood stands
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Provenance

Chait Galleries, New York

Lot Essay

For an identical yellow jar with Kangxi six-character mark in the Percival David Foundation see John Ayers and Masahiko Sato, Ceramic Art of the World, vol. 15, Ch'ing Dynasty, pl. 257; and also an unmarked example illustrated by John Ayers in The Baur Collection, vol. 3, pl. A456. See, also, a pale green-glazed jar dated to the Shunzhi period (c. 1650-1660) included in the exhibition, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, illustrated by Sir Michael Butler, Margaet Medley and Stephen Little in the Catalogue, 1990, col. pl. 75

It is highly unusual to find a set of three vases, each with a single glaze of either yellow, green or aubergine, colors usually seen in combination on single pieces