An underglaze-blue, copper-red, and celadon-glazed jar, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period | 清康熙 豆青地青花釉裏紅松下高士圖罐

An underglaze-blue, copper-red, and celadon-glazed jar

Qing dynasty, Kangxi period

清康熙 豆青地青花釉裏紅松下高士圖罐

of baluster form, sturdily potted, rising from a spreading foot with recessed base to a broad shoulder and short slightly tapered neck, finely painted around the sides with a continuous scene of a scholar resting under a pine tree facing a young attendant and a deer, the details delineated in underglaze blue, underglaze red, and white slip, all against a celadon ground, wood cover, wood stand (3)

Height 10 ⅜ in., 26.5 cm