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AN UNUSUAL VERY LARGE BLUE-
GROUND JAR AND COVER
18TH CENTURY
The cobalt ground with pale blue-green network of
'cracked ice' embellished with gilt butterfies, fruit
and fowers, with gilt metal mounts and monkey-
form lock
24⅝ in. (62.5 cm.) high (2)
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE:
The collection of Don Mauricio de la Arena, Mexico
City (acquired from a direct descendant).
LITERATURE:
William R. Sargent, Chinese Porcelain in the Conde
Collection, Madrid, 2014, p. 98, no. 17.
Large jars or tibores were often ftted in Mexico
with locking mounts, usually of iron, and used
as chocolateros. Tea drinking never caught on
in New Spain or Spain the way it did in England
or Holland; but chocolate drinking, derived
from cacao grown in Spanish possessions, was
common by the 17th century, as recorded by
such visitors as Peter Mundy, who sailed on a
Manila galleon in the 1630s. See M. Priyadarshini,
Chinese Porcelain in Colonial Mexico, pp. 119-129.

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A PAIR OF WHITE HOUNDS
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
A brown spotted puppy on the female's back
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high (2)
$6,000-9,000
PROVENANCE:
With Stair & Co., New York.
LITERATURE:
William R. Sargent, Chinese Porcelain in the Conde
Collection, Madrid, 2014, pp. 194-195.

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