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A MASSIVE PAIR OF MEXICAN MARKET VERTE-IMARI JARS The Hapsburg double-headed eagle was a potent symbol of Viceregal power
AND COVERS in the New World, and appeared on Chinese embroidered textiles, Mexican
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) silver and Puebla ceramics as well as on Chinese porcelains made for the
Each exuberantly enameled on its swelling sides with a dense pattern of Novohispanic market. By the time these jars were made Habsburg Spain had
chrysanthemum and peony vine growing in a lattice-fenced garden, colorful controlled Mexico for about two hundred years, and the New Spain territory
qilin prancing amidst the foliage, all centered by a double-headed Hapsburg extended far up the coast of California, across Arizona and New Mexico to
eagle on one side and a colorful foral mon on the other, these two motifs
Texas, and included Florida. With a long-established outpost in Manila and
repeated on the domed cover beneath a biscuit lion knop
a well-ensconced hierarchy in place in the New World, the Spanish were
35½ in. (90.2 cm.) high, giltwood stands (6)
very well-positioned to commission important porcelains with their Imperial
$80,000-120,000 symbols, even if, at this relatively early date for Chinese export porcelain,
those symbols are somewhat submerged in a wholly Chinese pattern.
PROVENANCE:
With Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
Compare a very similar, single jar and cover sold Christie's Paris, 14
December 2016, lot 83.

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