A RARE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE GLOBULAR JARLET AND COVER

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE GLOBULAR JARLET AND COVER
YONGZHENG

The compressed globular body rising from a flat base, painted in purplish-blue tones around the sides with the Three Abundances, peaches, pomegranate, and loquat issuing from scrolling vines between double horizontal bands, the shoulder applied with a small loop handle at each side of the short neck, the cover with overlapping leaves encircling a knop painted in blue, the sides decorated with a classic- scroll meander (rim hairlines to cover)
4 in. (10 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. a covered jar of the same form but decorated with floral sprays, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, 1989, p. 181, no. 10.

Compare also the Yongle prototype painted with arching lotus scroll from the R.H.R. Palmer Collection, sold in these Rooms, 17 January 1989, lot 563.

(US$8,000-10,000)

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