JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-66)

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A BLUE AND WHITE JAR, GUAN
Jiajing six-character mark and of the period (1522-66)
Decorated around the sides with a scene of boys at play on a garden terrace, some involved in childish play, others imitating adults, between a band of overlapping leaf tips below and flowering branches in cartouches on a diaper band above
13¾ in. (34.8 cm.) across

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Lot Essay

The theme of children at play was a particularly popular one in the Jiajing period. Not only is it charming in itself, this theme also carried with it auspicious messages for longevity and many sons. The Jiajing emperor was very concerned to achieve long life and also to have male heirs.
Compare the jars of this pattern illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 191; Mayuyama, Seventy Years,, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 1, p. 288, no. 865; by Yutaka Mino and James Robinson, Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly Collection of Chinese Art, Indianapolis, 1983, p. 254, pl. 101; by Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt and Jean-Claude Moreau-Gobard, Chinese Art, New York, 1980, p. 255, fig. 195; and by Ernst Zimmermann, Chinesisches Porzellan, vol. II. Leipzig, 1923, p. 52.

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