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A large blue and white potiche and cover A large blue and white baluster jar and cover
Kangxi Kangxi
The circular jar painted to the exterior with large lappet panels With moulded petal shaped panels enclosing butterflies amongst
alternately enclosing wisteria, camellia sprays and insects between a densely flowering leafy peony sprays, within floral and foliate pattern
peacock feather band at the foot and flowerheads at the mouth rim, borders.
the base with an artemisia leaf, the lid similarly decorated and with a 57cm (22.1/2in) high.
green-glazed lion finial.
32cm (12 5/8in) high (2). £2,500 - 4,000
CNY24,000 - 38,000
HK$30,000 - 47,000

£3,000 - 5,000 HK$35,000 - 59,000 For an identical jar and cover, see Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics In
CNY28,000 - 47,000 The Topkapi Saray Museum, Qing Dynasty Porcelain, Vol. III, Sotheby
Parke Benet 1986, p. 1001, fig. 2126.
Provenance
Purchased from A. Aronson, Amsterdam in 1961.

The distinctive cross-hatched style of painting on the present lot was
short lived but can be seen on many covered beakers from the cargo
of the Vung Tau wreck (c. 1690), also see a covered beaker, circa
1700, in the Rijksmuseum collection C.J.A. Jorg, Chinese Ceramics...,
Philip Wilson 1997. However the pattern on large size potiches
appears to be extremely rare. A green-glazed lion finial, rather than the
usual gilt biscuit, or underglaze blue decorated types, seems to also
be an unusual embellishment.

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