Lot 847. A blue and white baluster vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2016.

The jar is decorated with a scene of court ladies and boys on a garden terrace amidst rock formations and leafy trees, and with roiling waves in the distance, beneath a vaporous cloud border on the shoulder and beribboned emblems on the waisted neck. An artemisia leaf within a double circle is on the base. The cover is decorated with three boys at play. 16 in. (40.7 cm.) high

Provenance: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1909 (Rogers Fund).

Notes: Compare the Kangxi blue and white jar and cover of similar proportions, but of smaller size (27.5 cm.), decorated with court ladies and children at leisure in a garden setting below beribboned emblems on the waisted neck, in the Palace Musuem, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 36 - Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), Hong Kong, 2000,p. 49, no. 42.

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