Description:
Chinese export porcelain covered jar decorated in blue overall with a serpent meandering through branches. The base is marked in the Chinese characters for "Kangxi", from the Qing dynasty of the Emperor Kangxi (reigned 1662-1722). In the Emma Lewis Coleman inventory of Frary House, this was called a "Very Beautiful India jar on gate-legged table," and was given to Miss Baker and Miss Coleman by Mrs. Schlesinger of Brookline, MA. Coleman Inventory, #40. 1963 Inventory - Parlor #29. According to Karina Corrigan, Curator of Asian Export Art at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, on July 1, 2010, she said that neither the form nor the decoration date to the Kangxi period. The piece was made sometime in the 19th century.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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