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Chinese famille verte ovoid jar and cover.
Kangxi period (1662-1722).
The body painted with four opposing panels of flowers issuing from rockwork with birds, insects and butterflies, and groups of antique objects, including a ruyi sceptre, a jardinière on a stand containing peacock feathers, a sword, a branch of coral, and ribboned precious objects, against a cellular ground of diaper and flowerheads interspersed by florets.
The neck with a diaper band and shaped cartouches enclosing beribboned objects. The foot with a band of green scrolls. The domed cover decorated with a large central scene of flowers and smaller cartouches of precious objects against a cellular ground.
The beribboned objects on the neck and cover together comprise the Eight Treasures, or babao, which are auspicious symbols of good fortune, containing a pair of horns, an Artemisia leaf, a pearl, cash, an open lozenge, a solid lozenge, a musical stone and a pair of books.
Dimensions
Height: 14 ½ in. (37.1 cm)Condition report
The cover broken in three pieces and restored to a high standard, small frit to lower bodyStock number
U668The BADA Standard
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