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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
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
accessioned in 1909 (Rogers Fund).
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.
清康熙 青花嬰戲圖將軍罐
來源
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1908年 (Rogers 基金)。

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