Lot 51
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A BLUE-GLAZED JAR AND COVER
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A BLUE-GLAZED JAR AND COVER

UNDERGLAZE-BLUE JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-66)

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A BLUE-GLAZED JAR AND COVER
UNDERGLAZE-BLUE JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-66)
Incised around the ovoid body with two phoenix among clouds, between a band of ruyi heads around the neck and lotus petals around the base, the shallow domed cover with a band of ruyi heads below the bud finial, all covered in a deep cobalt-blue glaze stopping neatly around the foot, the interior and the base glazed white, rim restoration with associated crack
7½ in. (19 cm.) high
Provenance
E. T. Hall Collection, no. 324
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Lot Essay

A similar example, without its cover, is in the Baur Collection, illustrated by John Ayers, The Baur Collection, Chinese Ceramics. Volume Two. Ming Porcelains and Other Wares , Geneva, 1969, no. A 169. The author also mentions a smaller example in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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