A CHINESE KANGXI BLUE AND WHITE JAR, Kangxi (1662 - 1722)
Height: 25.5 cm; 10 in
BE33
BE33
Further images
Of barrel shape with a moulded, rounded and slightly everted short foot, decorated on the body with four large gently moulded cartouches painted with scenes of flowering and budding branches...
Of barrel shape with a moulded, rounded and slightly everted short foot, decorated on the body with four large gently moulded cartouches painted with scenes of flowering and budding branches issuing from stylized rockwork, birds flying amongst the branches, the cartouches reserved on blue grounds with white flowered diamond pattern, the gently everted foot painted with delicate branches, the glazed base with double circular lines in blue.
Literature
Three jars of identical shape and decoration are in the collection of the Topkapi Sarayi Museum and illustrated in John Ayers, Regina Kraahl and others, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, 1986, Volume III, pl. 2133, p. 1004.
