A RARE BISCUIT-DECORATED BLUE-GROUND PEAR-SHAPED VASE

JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK WRITTEN IN WHITE SLIP IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

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A RARE BISCUIT-DECORATED BLUE-GROUND PEAR-SHAPED VASE
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK WRITTEN IN WHITE SLIP IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
The body decorated on one side below the mark with a dragon leaping amidst clouds between two dragons that continue around the sides, all reserved in the biscuit and detailed in white slip in contrast to the dark blue ground, the two ribs encircling the neck and the rim of the dished mouth also left in the biscuit
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high

Provenance

R.C. Bruce Collection.
Ruth Dreyfus Collection, 1970.

Exhibited

3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1987.

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Lot Essay

This very rare vase is similar to a pair illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 242, nos. 9:57 and 9:58. Another pair can be seen as part of a five-piece garniture in the Musée Guimet, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 7, Tokyo/New York/San Francisco, 1981, pl. 66.

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