A cobalt and gilt ground jar and cover with famille-rose reserve panels


Late Qing dynastyThe walls thickly potted and painted with a pale cobalt wash of uneven color and gilt flower and leaf scroll decorations forming a ground around three large leaf-shaped reserves of red-haired Europeans standing in abbreviated Chinese garden settings separated by smaller quatrefoil reserves filled with traditional Chinese landscape views; the domed cover painted en suite and most surfaces covered with a pale greenish white glaze (cover chipped).17 3/4in (45cm) high