Lot 57: A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE OVOID JAR AND DOMED COVER Kangxi

A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE OVOID JAR AND DOMED COVER

Kangxi

The tall ovoid body painted at the center with four shaped cartouches alternately enclosing handled baskets bearing stylized lotus sprays, plantain leaves, and a flaming pearl or scenes of a mountainous riverscape studded with buildings, the cartouches reserved against 'scrolling lotus' and 'prunus cell' grounds, the shoulder and lower body each with further cartouches alternately painted with beribboned antiques or flowers, another thin band of grouped leaves and flowerheads below the biscuit neck, the domed cover centered by a rabbit on a blue-ground roundel surrounded by plantain leaves and lotus and with floral lappets to the sides.


21 1/4in (54cm) high

Jar: A repaired drilled hole to one lower side, probably for the insertion of a tap, or possibly for electricity. Generally, however in good overall condition and with superb bright violet-blue cobalt painting by a masterly hand.


Cover: Broken in several pieces, with only small losses, and riveted together on the cover interior (and sometimes referred to as 'honest repair'). Bright violet-blue cobalt tones.

清康熙 青花開光花卉山水博古圖蓋罐



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




Provenance:

S. Chait, New York

Rogers Fund, 1918

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1918-present




來源：

紐約 S. Chait 舊藏

Rogers 基金，1918 年

大都會藝術博物館，1918 年迄今



This vase would have originally formed part of a five-piece garniture set, comprised of three oviform or baluster vases and covers and two slender beaker vases. They were highly desirable among the aristocracy of Europe and Great Britain and would have been placed atop the stone or wood mantle that surrounded the fireplaces in the great halls or entrances of these grand houses. See a related pair of blue and jars, but without covers, Kangxi period, illustrated in
Porzellan aus China und Japan, Berlin, 1990, p.403, nos.192a and 192b.



For a very similarly shaped jar and cover with identically shaped panels to the sides, see Sotheby's New York, 18 September 1996, lot 199, from a private St. Louis Collection.



See also a complete garniture of this date that was sold at Bonhams London, 14 May 2009, Lot 95; and a similar blue and white jar and cover, sold at Bonhams Skinner Boston, 27 March 2023, lot 39.

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