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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE ‘HUNDRED
ANTIQUES’ JAR AND COVER
Kangxi
Finely painted around the exterior with shaped panels
containing auspicious and scholarly objects known
collectively as the ‘one hundred antiques’ motif as
well as flowers and birds, all reserved on a diaper-
pattern ground, the waisted neck with a scrolling
band of chysanthemums, the domed cover similarly
decorated and surmounted by a Buddhist-lion finial.
81cm (31 7/8in) high (2).

£8,000 - 12,000
CNY71,000 - 110,000

清康熙 青花開光博古紋獅鈕大蓋罐

The design known as the ‘hundred antiques’
encapsulates the traditional scholar’s interest in
collecting various objects which symbolised his
refinement and learning. It was fashionable to use
antiques as decoration on porcelain in the late Ming
and early Qing periods.

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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘LADIES’ BASIN
Kangxi six-character mark and of the period
Finely potted with deep rounded sides and foliate
rim, the well painted with a lady riding a horse,
accompanied by two attendants within a fenced
garden setting, the cavetto and rim painted with
eight radiating panels containing flower motifs and
figures of elegant ladies divided by diaper-patterns.
34cm (13 3/8in) diam.
£4,000 - 6,000
CNY35,000 - 53,000
清康熙 青花人物故事圖折沿盆
青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款

Provenance: an Asian private collection

來源：亞洲私人收藏

Compare with a related blue and white basin,
Kangxi, with motif of ladies and peonies, illustrated
in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum: Blue
and White Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Hong Kong,
1968, p.52, pl.10.

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