A pair of blue and white large baluster jars and covers

KANGXI

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A pair of blue and white large baluster jars and covers
Kangxi
The sides painted with long vertical panels bordered by a band of scrolls interspersed with small fruit, each enclosing birds and insects among single flowering branches of peony, chrysanthemum, lotus and prunus issuing from ornamental rockwork, repeated on the domed cover with knop finial decorated with lotus petals (rim crack and chips)
58 cm high (2)

Lot Essay

Compare a similar blue and white jar and cover, illustrated in Chinese Porcelains in the Hermitage Collection, Leningrad, 1977, p.100, Catalogue, no.130; and a pair from the Edward R. Bacon Collection illustrated by John Goetz, Catalogue of Chinese Art Objects, New York, 1919, pl.XL, no.348.

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