A BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER JAR AND COVER

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER JAR AND COVER
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The jar is decorated with a scene of court ladies and boys on a garden terrace amidst rock formations and leafy trees, and with roiling waves in the distance, beneath a vaporous cloud border on the shoulder and beribboned emblems on the waisted neck. An artemisia leaf within a double circle is on the base. The cover is decorated with three boys at play.
16 in. (40.7 cm.) high

Provenance

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1909 (Rogers Fund).

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Lot Essay

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.

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