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FIRST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
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A LARGE PAIR OF IRON-RED AND GILT JARS AND COVERS
First quarter 18th century
Finely painted in tones of peach, iron-red and gilt with petal-shaped panels of landscape vignettes, some showing bunnies or roosters standing on arched bridges, or peacocks on the terrace of a garden, or pheasants perched on weathered rocks or beside vases and jardinières of flowers, or birds flying in a moonlit sky, all below a collar of scrollwork terminating in lotus heads and enclosing auspicious symbols, the scenes repeated on the domed covers, all between underglaze blue line borders, the pointed knops in underglaze blue enriched with gilt petals.
24¼in. (61.5cm.) high (2)
First quarter 18th century
Finely painted in tones of peach, iron-red and gilt with petal-shaped panels of landscape vignettes, some showing bunnies or roosters standing on arched bridges, or peacocks on the terrace of a garden, or pheasants perched on weathered rocks or beside vases and jardinières of flowers, or birds flying in a moonlit sky, all below a collar of scrollwork terminating in lotus heads and enclosing auspicious symbols, the scenes repeated on the domed covers, all between underglaze blue line borders, the pointed knops in underglaze blue enriched with gilt petals.
24¼in. (61.5cm.) high (2)