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otable for their colourful and lively design of winged dragons flying through an exuberant floral scroll, jardinières of this form
are known as penjing (pot landscapes) and were typically used for planting bonsai trees or creating miniature landscapes. Their
N form with matching stands, was probably inspired by Jun examples attributed to the early Ming dynasty (1368-1644), such as
a flower pot and stand in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum’s exhibition The Enchanting Splendour of Vases and
Planters: A Special Exhibition of Flower Vessels from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 2014, cat. no. 1-06.
Famille-rose jardinières of this lobed form with their matching stands are unusual, although a similar example, but lacking the winged
dragons, in the Nanjing Museum, is illustrated in Zhongguo Qingdai guanyao ciqi [Official Chinese porcelain of the Qing dynasty],
Shanghai, 2003, p. 246, together with another painted with a lotus scroll, pl. 246; and one of barbed hexagonal form painted with sinuous
dragons, p. 261.
Jardinières of this form are also known decorated in a variety of colour grounds; see for example a yellow-ground jardinière and stand,
illustrated ibid., p. 256; a ruby-ground example sold in these rooms, 12th-13th May 1976, lot 281; and a pink-ground jardinière lacking
the stand, sold in our New York rooms, 13th-14th September 2016, lot 263.

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