Details
The ovoid form jar is decorated in bright enamels with birds and large pheasants on rocks with flowering plants
1612 in. (41.9 cm.) high, hongmu wood cover
Provenance
J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, no. 550/690003.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 April 2000, lot 55.
Acquired by Ann Getty from the above.
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Lot Essay

Although the vase described by Stephen Bushell and William Laffan, Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1910, no. 550 appears to be the same as this vase, the height is listed as 23½ inches; this discrepancy may be explained by the fact that the catalogue included in its description "with carved ebony cover" which may have been included in the measurements.

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