A RARE BLUE AND WHITE LOBED JAR AND COVER MARK AND PERIOD OF JIAJING
the baluster body divided into four lobes and surmounted by a straight neck, painted in rich cobalt-blue tones with peony blooms borne on meandering leafy scrolls above overlapping lappets, all below a band of shaped cartouches each enclosing a shou character amidst lotus scrolls, the neck encircled by a composite floral scroll, the domed cover similarly decorated with fu characters interspersed amongst peony sprays below a quatrefoil cartouche enclosing leafy gourds, surmounted by a finial in the form of a squirrel, the base inscribed with a four-character reign mark
25 cm, 9 7/8 in.
Provenance:
Collection of Lolita Armour Higgason (1896-1976).
Sotheby's Los Angeles, 24th June 1976, lot 624, auctioned at the collector's home, El Mirador, Montecito, California.
Sotheby's Los Angeles, 10th March 1977, lot 1525.
Weisbrod & Dy Ltd, New York, 1977.
Christie's Hong Kong, 20th March 1990, lot 532.
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the baluster body divided into four lobes and surmounted by a straight neck, painted in rich cobalt-blue tones with peony blooms borne on meandering leafy scrolls above overlapping lappets, all below a band of shaped cartouches each enclosing a shou character amidst lotus scrolls, the neck encircled by a composite floral scroll, the domed cover similarly decorated with fu characters interspersed amongst peony sprays below a quatrefoil cartouche enclosing leafy gourds, surmounted by a finial in the form of a squirrel, the base inscribed with a four-character reign mark
25 cm, 9 7/8 in.
Provenance:
Collection of Lolita Armour Higgason (1896-1976).
Sotheby's Los Angeles, 24th June 1976, lot 624, auctioned at the collector's home, El Mirador, Montecito, California.
Sotheby's Los Angeles, 10th March 1977, lot 1525.
Weisbrod & Dy Ltd, New York, 1977.
Christie's Hong Kong, 20th March 1990, lot 532.
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