Lot 459. Two blue and white baluster jars and covers, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period (1662-1722)Height of taller 23 1/2 in., 59.7 cm. Estimate 12,000 — 18,000 USD. Lot sold 35,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's 2014

each jar molded with three registers of barbed lappet panels each enclosing a flowering tree emerging from rockwork and festooned with hanging vines, the branches and leaves cross-hatched, all between diaper bands at the rim and base, repeated on the domed fitted cover with pointed knop (4). 

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF PETER L. ROSENBERG

Note: A jar of the same form and design is illustrated in Regina Krahl and John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. 3, London, 1986, p. 1002, no. 2129.

Sotheby's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS & WORKS OF ART. 18 MARS 2014 - 19 MARS 2014. NEW YORK