KANGXI PERIOD

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TWO CHINESE IMARI PORCELAIN OCTAGONAL JARDINERES
KANGXI PERIOD
Each with eight short bracket feet, the rim decorated with flower-heads and ruyi heads on an iron-red trellis ground
15 7/8 in. (40.5 cm.) wide, the wider (2)

Provenance

The larger: The Benjamin F. Edwards III Collection; Christie's, New York, 20 January 2004, lot 134.
The smaller: The Benjamin F. Edwards III Collection; Christie's, New York, 22 January 2002, lot 11.

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Lot Essay

A jardinière of this form was made in blue and white for Sir Henry Johnson, a wealthy Blackwall shipbuilder, in the late 1690s, one of the first armorial pieces produced for the English market. See D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, pp. 36 and 164.

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