Two Chinese Imari porcelain octagonal jardineres, Kangxi period. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2012

Each with eight short bracket feet, the rim decorated with flower-heads and ruyi heads on an iron-red trellis ground; 15 7/8 in. (40.5 cm.) wide, the wider (2). Estimate $10,000 - $15,000

Provenance: The larger: The Benjamin F. Edwards III Collection; Christie's, New York, 20 January 2004, lot 134.
The smaller: The Benjamin F. Edwards III Collection; Christie's, New York, 22 January 2002, lot 11.

Notes: A jardinière of this form was made in blue and white for Sir Henry Johnson, a wealthy Blackwall shipbuilder, in the late 1690s, one of the first armorial pieces produced for the English market. See D.S. Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, pp. 36 and 164.

Christie's. English Pottery and Chinese Export Art, 28 January 2013, New York, Rockefeller Plaza.