A RARE MING BLUE AND WHITE ZHADOU

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A RARE MING BLUE AND WHITE ZHADOU
ZHENGDE FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

Freely painted on the exterior with two rows of pairs of dragons striding amidst penciled stems of lotus scroll, above a band of ruyi heads encircling the spreading foot and below a double-line border on the underside of the flared rim, the interior of the rim similarly decorated, restoration to rim--6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A similar jar included in the Smithsonian Institution Exhibition, Ming Porcelains in the Freer Gallery of Art, is illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 29

Compare also the examples from the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Vol. 8, pl. 228; another in the Palmer Collection illustrated by Garner, Oriental Blue and White, pl. 46B; and one in the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, Section 3, pl. IX, no. A682

A similar zhadou was sold in these rooms, December 10, 1987, lot 226