A 'Famille-Rose' Faux-Bois-Decorated Ginger Jar. Qing dynasty, 19th Century

The ovoid jar tapering to the foot, with low lip, the body painted with flowering prunus, a rose and butterflies against a faux-bois ground, with pierced and carved wood stand and cover, the cover inset with an incised celadon jade plaque; together with a blue and white bottle vase, 19th century, with tall waisted neck over a compressed globular body and straight foot, the body painted with Ming-style lotus scrolls, the shoulder and lip with lotus, the neck with plantain leaves, the mouth with scroll band, the foot with petal band over waves, underside with a double ring, and a yellow-ground 'dragon' dish, late 19th/early 20th century, the circular saucer dish incised with a five-clawed dragon among flames, enameled green, the exterior incised with two dragons pursuing 'pearls' among flames, similarly enameled, underside with six-character Guangxu mark in underglaze blue (5) - height of jar 7 1/8 in., 18 cm height of vase 15 3/8 in., 39 cm diameter of dish 10 3/4 in., 27.3 cm - Estimate: 5,000—7,000 USD - Lot sold: 4,375 USD

PROVENANCE : The jar: Kichigoro Suzuki, Kyoto and Tokyo (until 1906)
American Art Association, 15th, 16th, 17th March 1906, lot 589, illustrated (attributed to the Qianlong period)
All: Senator A. Burlingame Johnson (the blue and white vase and the dish by 1923).
Thence by descent to the current owners.

EXHIBITED : The blue and white vase and the dish: Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, circa 1923, Handbook of a Collection of Chinese Porcelains Loaned by A. Burlingame Johnson, cat.nos 97 and 178, respectively, both illustrated.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art including Chinese and Japanese Art from The Collection of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal. 16 Sep 08. www.sotheby's.com