Lot 59: A BLUE AND WHITE 'PETAL'-MOLDED BALUSTER JAR AND COVER Kangxi

A BLUE AND WHITE 'PETAL'-MOLDED BALUSTER JAR AND COVER

Kangxi

The elegant body lightly molded with spiraling leaf-shaped panels and painted in bright cobalt tones with alternate panels of peony stems and lotus reserved on a blue ground between thin chevron bands at the spreading foot and shoulder, the waisted neck with further lotus petals below a chevron band at the rim, the cover similarly painted and with a knop finial.


15 3/4in (40cm) high

Jar: Fritting to the jar rim and foot edge but mostly unobtrusive. A chip (1in) to underside of foot edge. A few iron spots and air bubble pinpricks to surface but unobtrusive.


Cover: Large chip to rim (2 1/4in across) with adjacent yellowing restoration on rim.

清康熙 青花花卉紋將軍蓋罐



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Thomas Benedict Clarke

House Sale, American Art Association, New York, January 8-13, 1921, lot 596

Rogers Fund, 1921

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1921-present




來源：

Thomas Benedict Clarke 舊藏

House Sale，紐約 American Art Association，1921 年 1 月 8-13 日，拍品編號 596

Rogers 基金，1921 年

大都會藝術博物館，1921 年迄今



For a baluster jar and cover of similar type, see Regina Krahl,
Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Qing Dynasty Porcelain, Vol. III, New York, 1986, p. 1001, no. 2126 and a reserve-decorated cover, p. 916, no. 2149.

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