KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The present pair of jardinières belongs to a group of jardinières usually of rather large size, decorated in a painterly style, most often in doucai technique, but occasionally in famille verte enamels, and marked beneath their everted, flattened, foliated rims with six-character Kangxi marks.

A pair of jardinières of identical octagonal form and with identical border but decorated with different scenes of Daoist figures in lavish landscapes was sold at Christie’s New York, 21 September 2000, lot 358. Compare also a hexagonal planter with ruyi-shaped feet similarly decorated with scenes of Daoist figures in lavish landscapes and with a Kangxi mark is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated by Liu Liang-yu in Ch’ing Official and Popular Wares p. 50 and another on a pedestal foot in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 210, no. 192.