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A VERY RARE LATE MING INCISED GREEN AND YELLOW 'DRAGON' JAR, GUAN

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A VERY RARE LATE MING INCISED GREEN AND YELLOW 'DRAGON' JAR, GUAN
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The well-potted ovoid body with a thin luting rib around the mid-section, incised with four barbed cartouches containing dragons, clouds and flaming pearls dividing the Eight Buddhist Emblems, bajixiang, between lotus panels around the shoulder and flower-sprays around the foot (rim restored)
7 in. (17.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Previously sold in these Rooms, 19 March 1991, lot 538.

A similar example from a Private Collection in Hawaii, was sold in our New York Rooms, 20 March 1997, lot 137.

For other examples see, Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Vol. I, Tokyo National Museum,; Vol. II, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The British Museum, London; Kodansha Series, Tokyo, 1982, nos. 124, 96 and 206 respectively.

(US$20,000-25,000)

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