KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A BLUE AND WHITE BARREL-SHAPED JAR AND COVER
Kangxi (1662-1722)
With large biscuit seated Buddhistic lion finial on the flat cover and two small biscuit lion-mask loop handles at the sides, painted on one side with a seated dignitary and attendants in a pavilion interior, the other side with ladies on a pavilion terrace, between rows of small moulded dots around the foot and cover
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Compare the similar jar and cover illustrated by C. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, no.106, p.110, where the author suggests that the rows of small bosses on these jars were probably copying the nails which held the drum skin of the wooden model. The finial of the Rijksmuseum example was later painted in Europe. Another similar jar and cover is in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, illustrated by D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, 1974, no.75 (illustrated as no.76); and a third was in the Mottahedeh Collection, sold in New York, 19 October 2000, lot 85.

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