A PAIR OF LARGE CHINESE IMARI JARS AND COVERS. Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period. Each of baluster form, painted in gilt, underglaze blue and iron red with a continous scene around the body depicting two pheasants on rocks amidst luxuriant flowering trees, the domed covers decorated with peonies emerging from behind rocks, above a diaper border with three ruyi heads encircling an unglazed finial modelled as a Buddhist lion dog seated with the head slightly raised, with unglazed Chinese lion finial, 64cm H. (4) 清康熙 伊万里式大盖罐一对 La Madadie de Porcelaine... East Asian Porcelain from the Collection of Augustus the Strong, by E. Ströber, 2001 Berlin, p.91 for a pair of similar vases decorated with a bird on a rock.