A LARGE GREEN-GROUND IRON-RED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE

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A LARGE GREEN-GROUND IRON-RED DOUBLE-GOURD VASE
ENCIRCLED JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Both gourds painted with a continuous arching lotus scroll divided at the waist by a band of stylized key-pattern and leafy sprays reserved on a whorl-pattern ground, the lower gourd with a band of lotus panels above the foot, the upper gourd with a further floral-scroll and flower-heads alternating with triangular diaper-pattern cartouches below the mouth (neck restored)
17 1/4 in. (44 cm.) high, box

Sale room notice

Please note, the body of the vase has been restored.

Lot Essay

Previously sold in our London Rooms, 7 June 1993, lot 58.

A similar vase from the Eumorfopoulos Collection is illustrated by Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum, no. 164; one from the Bloxham Collection, now in the British Museum, is illustrated by Hobson, Chinese Ceramics from Private Collections, fig. 178; another from the Percival David Foundation in the Catalogue, section 5, pl. VII, no. 774; cf. an example in the revised Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 14, no. 197; and one from the Musee Guimet in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 7, no. 69.

(US$13,000-20,000)

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