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AN IRON-RED AND FAMILLE-VERTE JAR AND A COVER, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD,
robustly potted with a globular body rising from a flared foot to a cylindrical neck, painted with two panels of flowering prunus trees
emerging from rockwork, interspersed with two sets of pomegranate and circular shaped panels depicting landscape scenes and a
butterfly, all reserved against an iron-red ground with densely scrolled white scrollwork and lotus blossoms in pale yellow, aubergine, and
green, bordered above by a band of ruyi at the shoulder below a collar of carp reserved in oval panels against green stippled ground with
blossoms, the neck with flowering foliate branches and a band of aubergine and green alternating stripes encircling the foot, the base with
a double circle in underglaze blue, the domed cover surmounted by an underglaze blue finial above fruiting leafy pomegranate and peach
branches painted in bright enamels (2)
⌲Ꮴ⛆ ρᒖ䪸ٶ㟞划ృ㑽䙺㧸
Height 13⅝ in., 34.6 cm
$ 7,000-10,000
PROVENANCE ҳ⎽
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York. Ralph M Chait Galleries喑㈽㈱
60 SOTHEBY’S