A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE DEEP BELL-SHAPED CUP
A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE DEEP BELL-SHAPED CUP
A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE DEEP BELL-SHAPED CUP
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A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE DEEP BELL-SHAPED CUP

JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)

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A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE DEEP BELL-SHAPED CUP
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
The exterior is decorated with four roundels of side-facing five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls amidst flames, each positioned above a peach sprig and separated by the babao and clouds. The interior is decorated with a shou character.
4 3/8 in. (11.2 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
Provenance
Bluett & Sons, London.
The Falk Collection, no. 267.
Christie’s New York, The Falk Collection I, 16 October 2001, lot 139.
Kitayama Fine Arts, Tokyo.

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Lot Essay

There appear to be no other published cups of this design and decoration. There is, however, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, a Jiajing mark and period cup with a similar bell-form profile painted with three sheep on the exterior along with pine, bamboo, plum, palm trees, and taihu stones, as well a slightly narrower cup, also Jiajing mark and period, with a scene of a pavilion between arching columns; both examples illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, p. 225, nos. 424 and 426.

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