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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE OVOID JAR AND DOMED COVER 來源：
Kangxi 紐約 S. Chait 舊藏
The tall ovoid body painted at the center with four shaped cartouches Rogers 基金，1918 年
alternately enclosing handled baskets bearing stylized lotus sprays, 大都會藝術博物館，1918 年迄今
plantain leaves, and a flaming pearl or scenes of a mountainous
riverscape studded with buildings, the cartouches reserved against This vase would have originally formed part of a five-piece garniture
‘scrolling lotus’ and ‘prunus cell’ grounds, the shoulder and lower set, comprised of three oviform or baluster vases and covers and
body each with further cartouches alternately painted with beribboned two slender beaker vases. They were highly desirable among the
antiques or flowers, another thin band of grouped leaves and aristocracy of Europe and Great Britain and would have been placed
flowerheads below the biscuit neck, the domed cover centered by a atop the stone or wood mantle that surrounded the fireplaces in the
rabbit on a blue-ground roundel surrounded by plantain leaves and great halls or entrances of these grand houses. See a related pair of
lotus and with floral lappets to the sides. blue and jars, but without covers, Kangxi period, illustrated in Porzellan
21 1/4in (54cm) high aus China und Japan, Berlin, 1990, p.403, nos.192a and 192b.
$10,000 - 15,000 For a very similarly shaped jar and cover with identically shaped panels
to the sides, see Sotheby’s New York, 18 September 1996, lot 199,
清康熙 青花開光花卉山水博古圖蓋罐 from a private St. Louis Collection.
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 See also a complete garniture of this date that was sold at Bonhams
London, 14 May 2009, Lot 95; and a similar blue and white jar and
Provenance: cover, sold at Bonhams Skinner Boston, 27 March 2023, lot 39.
S. Chait, New York
Rogers Fund, 1918
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1918-present

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