A Large Blue and White Double-Gourd Vase
A Large Blue and White Double-Gourd Vase

JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

细节
A Large Blue and White Double-Gourd Vase
Jiajing Six-Character Mark in Underglaze Blue and of the Period
The lower bulb painted with the 'Three Friends', pine, prunus and bamboo, separating scenes of cranes and deer below peach meander on the waisted middle, the upper bulb with two cranes separated by twisted shou characters flanked by prunus, bamboo and lingzhi fungus
17in. (44.4cm.) high

拍品专文

All of the motifs incorporated into the decoration on this vase are symbols of longevity and are representative of the popularity of Daoism during the Jiajing period.

A similar vase was included in the exhibition, Possessing the Past - Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 19 March - 19 May 1996, p. 446, pl. 243; another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by S. Valenstein, Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989 ed., pl. 166; one from the Oppenheim Collection now in the collection of the British Museum was included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, London, 1935 - 1936, no. 1915; and another was included in the exhibition, Selected Pieces from the Collections of the ROC Society of Art Collectors, Singapore, 1989, no. 93.