M5270and1
£65,000
Description
A pair of Chinese porcelain blue and white large ovoid ginger jars and covers, each painted with four different panels, two of landscape and two with the bogu tu, ‘100 antiques’, one vase with two landscape panels with scholar and attendant crossing a rocky promontory in a mountain river landscape scene, the other with a single scholar crossing a rocky promontory in a mountain river landscape scene with viewing pavilion and buildings beneath mountains and birds in flight and a scene with addition of a fisherman in his boat, the ‘100 antiques’ panels including vases of archaic gu form holding peacock feathers, censers, wrapped qins, ruyi-sceptres, weiqi board, rings, music stone, scrolls, books and precious objects, all on a rich blue floral cash ground between ruyi-lappets painted in reverse with white flowerheads on a blue ground, beneath a keyfret band at the shoulder, the covers with bogu tu with different bands at the rim, one with a ruyi-band, one with a fruit and floral band, each beneath a crenellated band.
One 15 inches, 38.1 cm high; the other 14 ½ inches, 36.9 cm high.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Sold by Marchant, c. 1970.
- From the private collection of Khalil Rizk.
- From the private collection of Pierre Durand.
- The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York (with labels).
Condition
Excellent
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