KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Compare the Kangxi blue and white jar and cover of similar proportions, but of smaller size (27.5 cm.), decorated with court ladies and children at leisure in a garden setting below beribboned emblems on the waisted neck, in the Palace Musuem, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 36 - Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), Hong Kong, 2000,p. 49, no. 42.