A set of three of Qing dynasty, Kangxi period famille verte jars and covers, the powder-blue ground decorated with stylised scrolling grasses painted in gilt, each with three famille verte panels depicting court ladies and pagodas by the water in mountainous landscapes.

It is particularly rare to find a set of three of the present jars, the example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art being only a single. The present examples are very finely painted, capturing a sense Chinese life in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth centuries.

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Example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Accession No. 14.40.231a, b))

The finial on the cover of the central jar replaced.

The jars are in very fine condition