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A ‘BLUE AND WHITE’ OVOID JAR, GUAN
Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, late 17th–early 18th century
21,3 cm high
Apocryphal Chengua nianzhi four-character mark.
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. n. 3430.
The globular body decorated with four circular medallions with ladies in the landscape against a ground with moulded vertical ribs, the shoulder with floral sprays, the lower zone of the body with some of the Eight Precious Things (babao).
Two ribbed jars with a similar decoration, with a Chengua mark too and flattened circular covers, are in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (C.J.A. Jörg, in collaboration with J. Van Campen, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Ming and Qing Dynasties, London 1997, pp. 110-111, n. 107; J. Van Campen, Supplement to Chinese ceramics in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Ming and Qing dynasties, in collaboration with C.J.A. Jörg, Amsterdam 1997, p. 19, n. 164).
