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Lot 101
A Large Chinese Porcelain Temple Jar
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Late Qing dynasty, 19th century, large voluminous jar with domed cover having a lotus blossom finial, the sides of jar have two large shaped registers together with two smaller registers between each populated with hand painted floral blooms and butterflies, ruyi shaped decoration borders the neck, the cover decorated in the same manner as the body.

25 1/2 in.

Private Collection of a Lady, Raleigh, North Carolina

Good estate condition; some minor discoloration around jar rim; some pitting to surface; glaze losses or firing defects to sections of cover; with felt circles to underside.