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14. Chinese porcelain famille verte ovoid ginger jar and cover painted with four large petal shaped panels enclosing a kingfisher
amongst lotus flowers, leaves, arrow-heads and grasses beneath insects in flight; peony issuing amongst rockwork with daisy and
鳥 蓋 圖 罐 五 彩 花 a butterfly in flight; morning-glory issuing from pierced rockwork with a large praying mantis and butterflies; and tree peony
amongst rockwork with a large bud and an open-winged butterfly, all on a pale green ground with iron-red chrysanthemum flower
head and aubergine branches, the shoulder with precious object reserves on an iron-red reverse technique lotus flower head ground,
the cover with a bird perched on a branch amongst flowering aster and rockwork above a ruyi-head and flower head band.
11 inches, 28 cm high.
Kangxi, circa 1700.

清 康 熙 • Formerly in the Sir Alfred Aykroyd Collection.
Major Sir Alfred Hammond Aykroyd (1884-1965), 2nd Baronet, was in The Royal Field Artillery and served as High Sheriff
of Yorkshire in 1952. The Aykroyd Baronetcy of Lightcliffe in the West Riding of the County of York, was created in the
Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 16th June 1920 for William Henry Aykroyd, the father of Alfred who was a director of
T. F. Firth & Sons, Ltd. and also served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1926.
• Sold by Sotheby’s, London, in their auction of An Important Collection of Chinese Porcelain, The Property of The Late Sir Alfred
Aykroyd, 17th May 1966, lot no. 173 (one of a pair), illustrated full page opposite.
• A similar ginger jar in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, acquired in 1946, is illustrated by Jan Van Campen and Christiaan
J.A. Jörg in the 1997 supplement to Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum Museum, Amsterdam, the Ming and
Alfred Aykroyd 爵
舊 藏 士 Qing Dynasties, catalogue no. 421, p. 37.

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