TWO FINE MING BLUE AND WHITE OVIFORM JARS, each with broad shoulder and short cylindrical neck, painted in strong blue tones with various stylised shou characters formed from the stems of the Three Friends of Winter, pine, prunus and bamboo, growing up from rocks and breaking waves, divided by lingzhi stems and below a floral meander collar and upright stiff leaves around the neck (rim frits slightly polished), Jiajing six-character marks and of the period

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TWO FINE MING BLUE AND WHITE OVIFORM JARS, each with broad shoulder and short cylindrical neck, painted in strong blue tones with various stylised shou characters formed from the stems of the Three Friends of Winter, pine, prunus and bamboo, growing up from rocks and breaking waves, divided by lingzhi stems and below a floral meander collar and upright stiff leaves around the neck (rim frits slightly polished), Jiajing six-character marks and of the period
each approximately 21.5cm. high (2)

来源

Mr & Mrs Alfred Clark, nos. 507 and 244

出版

Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Mr and Mrs Alfred Clark, p. 31, fig. XXXIIIa

展览

Oriental Ceramics Society, Ming Blue & White, 1946, cat. no. 71

拍品专文

Two similarly decorated baluster vases formerly in the C.T. Loo Collection, Paris, are illustrated by M. & C. Beurdeley, Chinese Ceramics, pp. 184-185, pl. 58 and 60

Other pieces with similar decoration include a small box and cover in the Bloxam Collection, illustrated by R.L. Hobson, B. Rackham and W. King, Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, p. 114, fig. 205, and a bowl illustrated by J.A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, pl. 80. There are also a number of double-gourd vases, decorated with a variety of longevity symbols, using stylised shou characters on the upper section. Cf. the examples in the Oppenheim Collection, R.L. Hobson, B. Rackham and W. King, op. cit., col. pl. 11; the Versteegh Collection, L. Reidermeister, Ming Porzellane, pl. 116; and the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Blue and White Wares of the Ming Dynasty, Book V, pl. 4

The distinctive decoration, incorporating stylised shou characters, is typical of Taoist subjects, popular during the reign of Jiajing