A fine small doucai jar Yongzheng mark and period

the ovoid body rising from a short foot to a straight neck, delicately painted to the exterior with a gnarled prunus tree and bamboo in a garden landscape with jagged rocks beneath ruyi clouds, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark within a double-circle

The jar is in very good condition with the exception of some very minor glaze firing imperfections including iron-spots and glaze pin holes.
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A jar of this type but of smaller size was sold in our New York rooms, 20^th March 2002, lot 197. Compare an ovoid jarlet decorated with a similar design sold in these rooms, 25^th March 1975, lot 277. For the Kangxi prototype to this piece, see one from the C. Oswald Liddell collection, included in the exhibition Bones of Jade, Sole of Ice. The Flowering Plum in Chinese Art, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1985, cat. no. 103.