A BLUE AND WHITE 'JESUIT' BALUSTER VASE painted on one side with the Jesuit monogram IHS, the other side with a cross supported on a yin yang symbol on above a masonic emblem, divided by scholar's utensils, mid/late Qing Dynasty

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'JESUIT' BALUSTER VASE painted on one side with the Jesuit monogram IHS, the other side with a cross supported on a yin yang symbol on above a masonic emblem, divided by scholar's utensils, mid/late Qing Dynasty
11cm. high

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Cf. M. Beurdeley, op. cit., p.205, cat. 235, for a similar blue and white vase with a Jesuit monogram but where the other side has "The Flight into Egypt"; and p.138 for a famille verte square jardinière, also with IHS, in the Museum of Antique Art in Lisbon

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