A Chinese blue and white ovoid jar Kangxi 1662-1722, painted with a continuous design depicting dense grape vines, bamboo issuing from rockwork and with many squirrels clambering upon the vines and fruit, paper collection label, a hardwood cover carved with prunus and a hardwood stand, 21.4cm. (3)

Provenance: from the collection of Brodie and Enid Lodge of Flore House, Northamptonshire, and thence by descent. Formerly the collection of Sir John Wormald.

Cf. The World's Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics, Vol.7, Musee Guimet, Paris, no.108 for a Kangxi bowl of this design.

The vine and squirrel, songshu putao, when seen together represent the wish for ceaseless generations of male descendants.

清康熙  青花松鼠葡萄蓋罐

來源：伊妮得和布羅迪•羅傑收藏，由約翰·沃夢德舊藏