TWO BLUE AND WHITE BARREL-SHAPED JARS AND COVERS with gilt seated Buddhistic lion finials and mask-loop handles, one painted on the sides with lady musicians and attendants on a terrace, the other with dignitaries and attendants at leisure on a terrace, within bands of raised dots above the foot and on the cover, the flat covers similarly painted with four lappets reserved on a trellis-pattern band (the former with finial restored, finial and handles regilt), Kangxi

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TWO BLUE AND WHITE BARREL-SHAPED JARS AND COVERS with gilt seated Buddhistic lion finials and mask-loop handles, one painted on the sides with lady musicians and attendants on a terrace, the other with dignitaries and attendants at leisure on a terrace, within bands of raised dots above the foot and on the cover, the flat covers similarly painted with four lappets reserved on a trellis-pattern band (the former with finial restored, finial and handles regilt), Kangxi
24.5cm. and 23cm. high (2)

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Cf. D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, op.cit.,, pl.76, no. 75 for a similar single jar and cover

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