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A BLUE AND WHITE JAR AND COVER Blue and white porcelain in the shape of the present jar with fgural
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, MID-17TH CENTURY decoration was very popular with European nobility and collectors in the
The jar is decorated to the exterior with a continous scene of an oficial with late 17th and early 18th century. The motifs were often taken from popular
two attendants in a garden landscape with clouds. The shoulder is incised Chinese novels, transferred from illustrated books or woodblock prints to
with a fower band and the neck is further embellished with two large fower porcelain. A larger jar and cover, also dated to the Transitional period and
tendrils. The cover is decorated with two fgures in a mountainous landscape. from the Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein collection, was sold at Christie's
7º in. (18.4 cm.) high New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1681.
£8,000-12,000 US$10,000-15,000
€9,100-14,000
明末清初 青花人物山水圖蓋罐
PROVENANCE:
With Ben Janssens Oriental Art, London, 2 June 1999. 來源:
倫敦Ben Janssens Oriental Art, 1999年6月2日
瑞士艾爾伯．梵達倫及莉奧妮．梵達倫伉儷珍藏
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