A LARGE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE AND IMARI JAR AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

the body of ovoid form with short straight neck, painted around the exterior with twelve blue and white quatrefoil panels enclosing landscape scenes with pagodas, all reserved on an imari-palette ground of blossoming peony branches, the domed cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a lotus-bud finial 

Private collection, Dresden, purchased around 1955 (by repute).

An identical jar and cover with gilt bronze mounts is illustrated by Walter Bondy, Kang-hsi, Munich, 1925, pl. 119.