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Lot 98W

A very fine pair of Chinese Imari jars and covers
Circa 1710-1730, on 19th century carved walnut stands in the Louis XVI style

8 November 2012, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£60,000 - £100,000

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A very fine pair of Chinese Imari jars and covers

Circa 1710-1730, on 19th century carved walnut stands in the Louis XVI style
Each vase vibrantly decorated in the Imari palette of underglaze blue and iron-red with branches issuing freely blossoming flowers, including chrysanthemum and peony, and long leafy tendrils, between a band of stiff lappets each containing a flower at the foot and a row of broad pendent underglaze blue ruyi-heads at the shoulder also containing blossoms and leaves in reserve, the waisted neck with a band of iron-red lotus scroll, each cover decorated all over with red and blue flowers and topped with a finial modelled as a crouching Buddhist lion. Each 90cm high (6).

Footnotes

Provenance: The Stafford-Andrers family, Westbrook House, Surrey, purchased by the present owner circa 1996.

伊萬里青花紅彩花卉紋蓋罐一對
約1710至1730年,核桃雕座屬十九世紀路易十六風格

來源: Stafford-Andrers家族,Westbrook House,薩瑞郡,約1996年由現藏家購得

Compare an example in the Baron Van Zuylen sale, Castle de Haar, the Netherlands.

Compare also a related single Imari jar and cover, dated to the Qing Dynasty, c.1710-1730 but smaller (59.5cm high) illustrated by R.Krahl and J.Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul: A Complete Catalogue, III, Qing Dynasty Porcelains, London, 1986, no.2969, p.937.

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