Lot 876. A large famille verte jar and cover, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000. Photo: Christie's Image Ltd 2016. 

The jar is decorated with three registers of shaped panels enclosing landscapes, figures at leisure, and birds, all on a stippled ground with flower head blossoms, beneath beribboned auspicious emblems on the shoulder and lappets on the neck. The cover is similarly decorated. 26 3/8 in. (67 cm.) high, wood stand.

Provenance: John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874-1960) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1960.

Note: A famille verte jar of approximately the same size (64.8 cm) decorated with shaped panels of landscape scenes reserved on a flower-strewn stippled ground, was sold at Christie’s New York, 15 September 2009, lot 379.

Christie's. Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 15 September 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza