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BLUE & WHITE GINGER JAR AND COVER
DESCRIPTION BELOW
CATALOGUE NUMBER 0142
BLUE & WHITE GINGER JAR AND COVER
KANGXI PERIOD (1661-1722)
DIMENSIONS
Height: 9 ¾ inches
PROVENANCE
Berwald Oriental Art, London, 2000
CATALOGUE NOTES
"Hawthorne" or "Prunus" ginger jar and cover decorated with two circular vignettes with winter themes, one depicting a courtier riding an ass, followed by a servant
on foot traveling through a desolate rocky landscape.
Both are holding their covered hands before their mouths
presumably indicating intense cold. The other scene shows a figure (perhaps the same man) seated in a rocky crevasse while an apparition of an Immortal materializes on a cloud. All on a ground of washed blue cracked-ice pattern with white fallen prunus blossoms. The straight-sided cover with a flat top is decorated
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