A LARGE FAMILLE-NOIRE JAR AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY |

of baluster form, the robust rounded shoulders rising to a short cylindrical neck, later enameled with peony, magnolia, and hydrangea springing from rocks against a rich black ground, with a band of chevrons on yellow ground below the neck with further blossoms, the domed cover similarly decorated (2)

Duveen Brothers, New York.
The Norton Simon Foundation Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 7^th May 1971, lot 12.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
Collection of John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937).
Collection of Ira (1912-2004) and Nancy (1915-2005) Koger. 
Sotheby's New York 27^th November 1990, lot 21.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1965-1971.
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, 1985, cat. no 398.
Jacksonville Art Museum, Florida, 1987. 

John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London, 1985, pl. 99.

The black enamel ground likely added later than original firing. The jar with two swathes of spray consolidation in the area of painted rockwork, likely to consolidate a Y-form crack, the longer branch of which ran from the foot upwards and arced along the shoulder, measuring roughly the length of the body. There are firing flaws and slight over-firing seen in the bubbling of the black enamel, more visible on the cover. The jar's rim with fritting, and with dirt acretions throughout. The cover with two flake chips approximately 3 cm wide to the interior rim, and with an adhered label and red pen inventory number.
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