A RARE AND FINE YELLOW AND GREEN-GLAZED INCISED DRAGON JAR

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A RARE AND FINE YELLOW AND GREEN-GLAZED INCISED DRAGON JAR
WANLI MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

Incised with four quatrefoil panels, each enclosing a five-clawed dragon leaping above rocks and waves in pursuit of a flaming pearl, with the ba jixiang in between, and with eight different detached flower sprigs in a band below and a band of petal lappets encircling the shoulder above, all under a yellow glaze of egg-yolk tone reserved on a pale green ground--7 in. (17.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare other jars of this pattern and date in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated by Wirgin, Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, col. pl 7, no. 64; in the Idemitsu Museum of Art 15th Anniversary Catalogue, 1981, no. 870; in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, no. 935; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Honey, The Ceramic Art of China and Other Countries of the Far East, pl. 105b; in the Eumorfopoulos Collection, Catalogue, vol. 4, pl. XLV, no. D189 and in the Baur Collection, Ayers, Catalogue, vol. II, A208. Others are also illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections: vol. I, no. 124, in the Tokyo National Museum; vol. 11, no. 96, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and vol. 5, no. 206, in the British Museum