UNDERGLAZE-BLUE JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

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A RARE IMPERIAL YELLOW-GLAZED BELL-SHAPED CUP
UNDERGLAZE-BLUE JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
The deep rounded sides rising elegantly to a wide flaring rim from a short straight foot, the interior, exterior and the base covered overall in an even egg-yolk-yellow glaze thinning gently to a paler tone towards the mouth rim, and stopping around the unglazed foot rim, shallow underside rim chip
4 11/16 in. (12 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Mrs. B.Z. Seligman, sold at Sotheby's London, 11 May 1954, lot 64
Sir Alfred Ackroyd, sold at Sotheby's London, 17 May 1966, lot 36

Exhibited

Oriental Ceramic Society, Monochrome Ware of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, London, 1948, no. 60

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Lot Essay

Yellow-glazed cup of this form are very rare. A similar cup from the E.T. Hall Collection was exhibited at the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988, cat. no. 60, col. pl. 23, and subsequently sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 May 2000, lot 506. Another from the Percival David Foundation is included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Dynasty Monochrome Wares, London, 1989, pl. 10. Regina Krahl includes another example in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 2, no. 698, while another from the E.T. Chow and T.Y. Chao Collections sold in Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 452 and 18 November 1986, lot 68.

Compare also the blue-glazed version from the E. T. Hall Collection, sold in Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 May 2000, lot 510.

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