$425
Pair of Famille Verte Covered Jars, China, 19th/20th century, meiping shape, painted with ladies playing various musical instruments in a pavilion, with trees and distant mountains on the outside, the neck decorated with peony flowers and the shoulder with alternating plum blossoms and cartouches depicting scholarly objects on a geometric band embellished with the wan symbol, the cover painted with playing children above a similar border, the finial decorated with a chrysanthemum blossom, double ring on base, ht. 16 in. one repairs to base, mouth, and hairline cracks on one small portion of the body; the other with repairs to cover and hairline cracks on base
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-09-21