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Lot Essay
Several examples with this design, decorated in copper red or in cobalt blue, are known in both public and private collections. Compare the present lot to three jars decorated in copper red: one in the Umezawa Kinekan Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Tokyo, 1955, vol. 13, p. fig. 85; one in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Underglaze Blue and Red, Shanghai, 1987, fig. 34; the last in the British Museum illustrated by Soame Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1953, pl. 18.
Other published examples include one in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, illustrated in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, Japan, 1983, pl. 44; another in the Baur Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 1, Geneva, 1999, pl. 59; and the jar sold at Christie's Hong Kong, The Imperial Sale, 26 April 1999, lot 551.
Other published examples include one in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, illustrated in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, Japan, 1983, pl. 44; another in the Baur Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 1, Geneva, 1999, pl. 59; and the jar sold at Christie's Hong Kong, The Imperial Sale, 26 April 1999, lot 551.