KANGXI

Details

A blue and white jar and a cover
Kangxi
After a European silver example, the pear-shaped body raised on a splayed foot, decorated to each side with a lobed lozenge-shaped panels enclosing scrolls and books between sprays of lotus and plum blossom, applied with two curved loop handles moulded at the top with a lion mask, minute frittings, the matched cover with two rim restorations
31.8 cm. high

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Lot Essay

A similar jar is in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and in the Van Diepen Collection at Fraeylemaborg, Slochteren, Netherlands. C.J.A. Jörg and J. van Campen mention in the Catalogue of the Rijksmuseum, p. 262, fig. 302, that this shape is inspired after a Western silver example and was made exclusively for the Dutch market at the beginning of the 18th Century. Sometimes it would be made into a fountain by drilling a hole at the bottom to accomodate a silver tap as with the example in the Van Diepen Collection.

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