A NEAR PAIR OF CHINESE LAVENDER-GROUND JARS

SIX CHARACTER QIANLONG MARKS AND PROBABLY LATE IN THE PERIOD

Each with an ovoid body decorated in low relief with five fu characters painted in underglaze blue and outlined in white, the short waisted necks encircled by continuous bands of ruyi-heads, all reserved on a lavender-blue ground which extends to the bases, the base of one with a shop label, 21.9cm and 21cm. (2)

Cf. J Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol.II, p.508, nos.1281 and 1282 for a similar pair of jars with a celadon ground.