Lot 121
121
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A LARGE OLIVE-GLAZED STORAGE JAR, the ovoid body with broad shoulder fitted with lug handles around the waisted neck, applied with dragons chasing flaming pearls amidst clouds below lion-masks and floral motifs, all under a brownish-green glaze, late Ming Dynasty

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A LARGE OLIVE-GLAZED STORAGE JAR, the ovoid body with broad shoulder fitted with lug handles around the waisted neck, applied with dragons chasing flaming pearls amidst clouds below lion-masks and floral motifs, all under a brownish-green glaze, late Ming Dynasty
53cm. high

Lot Essay

Compare the similar jars, but with less crisply moulded applied decoration, illustrated by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt, Ming Porcelain, p.245, no. 275; in Tempayan: Martavans, no. 50; and the incised jar in S.J.Vainker, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain from Prehistory to the Present, no. 108

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