ENCIRCLED JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

A very similar jar is illustrated in colour in the revised edition Sekai Toji Zenshu, 1976, vol.14, no.232, p.236; and another in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, pl.844, p.282. Compare also the similarly enamelled square jars of this date; an example of this group complete with cover is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated Zhongguo Meishu Quanji (A Complete Anthology of Chinese Art), Ceramics, Vol.3, no.114, p.97.