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A COPPER-RED-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE AND JARDINIÈRE

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

The exterior is boldly painted with carp, crawfsh, shrimp and a crab amidst water plants beneath
a scroll border. The carp are picked-out in copper-red and the crawfsh, crab and sea plants in
underglaze blue.
19¿ in. (48.5 cm.) high overall including gilt-metal stand
$30,000-50,000

PROVENANCE

Edna H. Sachs Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1975.
Compare the blue and white jardinière decorated with a scene of carp swimming amidst water
plants beneath a scroll border encircling the rounded rim, but of smaller size (34.5 cm.), in
the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Chen Runmin in Selected Chinese Ceramics from
the Palace Museum (Volume 1): Blue and White Ceramics in Shunzhi and Kangxi Periods (Qing
Shunzhi Kangxi chao qing hua ci), Beijing, 2005, p. 391, no. 251, where it is dated Kangxi.
清康熙 青花釉裏紅魚藻紋卷缸
來源
Edna H. Sachs 珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1975年。

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