A VERY RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI OCTAGONAL ‘IMMORTALS’ JARDINIÈRES
A VERY RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI OCTAGONAL ‘IMMORTALS’ JARDINIÈRES
A VERY RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI OCTAGONAL ‘IMMORTALS’ JARDINIÈRES
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A VERY RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI OCTAGONAL ‘IMMORTALS’ JARDINIÈRES
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A VERY RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI OCTAGONAL ‘IMMORTALS’ JARDINIÈRES

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A VERY RARE PAIR OF DOUCAI OCTAGONAL ‘IMMORTALS’ JARDINIÈRES
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
Each thickly potted jardinière of octagonal section is finely painted to the sides with various scenes of Daoist immortals, their associated animals and auspicious attributes, and attendants, all in an outdoor setting, above a lotus-scroll border and a diaper pattern around the splayed foot. The everted rim is further decorated with flowering branches.
23 in. (58.5 cm.) wide, gilt-metal stands
Provenance
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 October 1995, lot 743

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Lot Essay

The present pair of jardinières belongs to a group of jardinières usually of rather large size, decorated in a painterly style, most often in doucai technique, but occasionally in famille verte enamels, and marked beneath their everted, flattened, foliated rims with six-character Kangxi marks.

A pair of jardinières of identical octagonal form and with identical border but decorated with different scenes of Daoist figures in lavish landscapes was sold at Christie’s New York, 21 September 2000, lot 358. Compare also a hexagonal planter with ruyi-shaped feet similarly decorated with scenes of Daoist figures in lavish landscapes and with a Kangxi mark is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated by Liu Liang-yu in Ch’ing Official and Popular Wares p. 50 and another on a pedestal foot in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 210, no. 192.

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