Two blue and white baluster jars and covers, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period. Photo Sotheby's
each jar molded with three registers of barbed lappet panels each enclosing a flowering tree emerging from rockwork and festooned with hanging vines, the branches and leaves cross-hatched, all between diaper bands at the rim and base, repeated on the domed fitted cover with pointed knop (4). Height of taller 23 1/2 in., 59.7 cm. Estimation 12,000 — 18,000 USD
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF PETER L. ROSENBERG
A jar of the same form and design is illustrated in Regina Krahl and John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. 3, London, 1986, p. 1002, no. 2129.
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