A Chinese blue and white ‘birds and rockwork’ ovoid jar, Kan...

Hammer

£4,000

A Chinese blue and white ‘birds and rockwork’ ovoid jar, Kangxi period, painted with three birds in flight and another perched on rockwork amid flowers and insects, double circle to base, 18cm high, hongmu ‘lotus’ cover and ‘Shou medallion’ stand

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Provenance - UK private collection, 1920s or earlier, thence by family descent.
This collection of late Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain and bronze vessels has been owned by a single Cotswold family for a number of generations dating back to the 1920s or earlier.
The collection was formerly on display at the family home in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, UK before the house was sold in the 1980s. Some interior photos taken c.1982 show a number of the pieces on display in the family house and an inventory undertaken in 1948 by the local Campden auctioneer and valuer Alfred Bower lists many of the items. Extracts of the 1948 inventory are included where they correspond to the relevant lots in the sale.
This jar is item 174 on the 1948 inventory.

The jar has some scuffs and scratches to the glaze on the exterior, an overglazed firing crack on the shoulder, otherwise in good condition with no restoration, chips or cracks detected. The wood stand and cover have a few tiny minor chip losses.